Foods Fred Cherrygarden Wants to Try

One small Portuguese town celebrates a saint with phallic cakes.

This hallucinogenic honey can sell for over $60 a pound on the black market.

The melon has its own sculpture, festival, and order of knights.

In this Moroccan street specialty, whole-roasted lamb is cooked in underground clay pits and sold by weight.

On the Andalusian coast, once-deadly tentacles become crispy delicacies.

Infants and Genghis Khan enjoyed this fermented mare's milk.

Across East Africa, these cardamom-flavored doughnuts are the perfect pairing for chai.

The city of the Taj Mahal hosts another wonder: Crystallized pumpkin candy.

This “brown cheese” tastes like caramel.

Consisting of spiced, curdled milk and lots of alcohol, this boozy bedtime drink dates back to the Middle Ages.

A traditional Cornish pie that—ARE THOSE FISH HEADS COMING OUT OF THE TOP?!

You can find authentic versions of this sour Slavic brew at street stalls and monasteries.

These Dutch doughnuts are classic New Year's treats.

These sweet hands come with stories of triumph and brutality.

Outside chapels carved from cliffs and caves, elderly women sell sweet, beautiful breads rooted in Armenia’s Christian traditions.

Armenians were making these sweet sheets of dried fruit centuries before the Fruit Roll-Up.