Gastro
Chap Goh Mei
On the fifteenth night of Chinese New Year, Malaysian singles throw caution to the wind and fruit to the water.
Foods I want to try
Foods this traveler wants to try.
Gastro
On the fifteenth night of Chinese New Year, Malaysian singles throw caution to the wind and fruit to the water.
Sweets
Local lore claims that German bakers made these pastries as an act of quiet rebellion during French occupation.
Gastro
Revelers roast wieners and “witches” at this annual Czech festival.
Fruits & Vegetables
The lychee-looking fruit appears in everything from jam and liqueur to the Aeneid and Madrid's flag.
Gastro
China's favorite urinating “tea pet” is actually a thermometer.
Food Festivals
The marshmallow spread's birthplace offers a quirky tribute to the sweet-sticky stuff.
Sweets
These pink cookies are destined to be dunked in champagne.
Sweets
These Japanese sweets demonstrate the ephemeral beauty of the seasons.
Drinks
This Japanese energy drink contains a controversial bee secretion.
Sweets
These sweet hands come with stories of triumph and brutality.
Ingredients & Condiments
Sweet sauce tops off buttermilk biscuits in the Appalachian and Ozark mountains.
Drinks
Flower bulbs are the main ingredient of this quintessentially Dutch spirit.
Gastro
The annual feast invites local macaques to dine on towers of fruit and vegetables among the ruins of a 13th-century temple.
Sweets
In Wales, midwinter is the right time to look a gift horse in its gaping skull-mouth.
Sweets
Every December, Sinterklaas and his helper throw these little spiced cookies to Dutch children.
Drinks
This Cabernet Sauvignon is out of this world.
Drinks
In the Atacama Desert, brewers trap fog moisture to make crisp ales.
Gastro
This wintertime serenade for apple trees also involves firing rifles and drinking cider.
Ingredients & Condiments
A distinctive herb named after a First Lady.
Gastro
A gesture of welcome and respect, Moroccan mint tea gets poured from high above the glass.
Gastro
This Spanish city gears up for Lent with a massive meringue fight.
Fruits & Vegetables
A crossbred table grape variety that tastes an awful lot like spun sugar.
Food Festivals
Where the world's best pizzas face off.
Sweets
A decadent dessert whose Italian name translates to “nipples of Venus.”