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Soused herring with onion

Prepared Foods

Dutch Soused Herring

No one eats pickled herring like the Dutch.

Chuños for sale in Paucartambo, Peru.

Ingredients & Condiments

Chuños

A key step in the Andean technique of freeze-drying potatoes is stomping on them.

Sourdough bread lined up at San Francisco's Boudin Bakery.

Ingredients & Condiments

Sourdough Starter

A century-old organism creates some of the world's best bread.

Civets (also called "luwaks") ferment coffee fruit seeds in their digestive tracts before excreting them.

Drinks

Kopi Luwak

This is one expensive load of crap.

The molten cheese center cooks the egg and melts the butter.

Prepared Foods

Adjaruli Khachapuri

Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.

The edible contents of the durian have been compared to custard.

Fruits & Vegetables

Durian

The fruit so pungent it's banned from trains, hotels, and public places.

The Verbena cocktail at the Chandelier Bar at The Cosmopolitan.

Ingredients & Condiments

Szechuan Button

This herb gives cocktails another kind of buzz.

Smen in a Marrakesh souk.

Meats & Animal Products

Smen

This Moroccan butter ferments underground for years and smells like blue cheese.

Behold, the most popular bread topping in the Netherlands.

Sweets

Hagelslag

The bread and butter of Dutch cuisine includes these jumbo sprinkles.

Spinach leaves topped with bonito flakes.

Meats & Animal Products

Bonito Flakes

Some fish can dance.

The many "shelves" of Laetiporus sulphureus.

Ingredients & Condiments

Chicken of the Woods

This mushroom tastes just like chicken.

Berliner weisse, flavored with green woodruff syrup. (Yes, that's a child in a mug on the brewery's logo.)

Drinks

Berliner Weisse

Pink or green syrup turns a historic German ale into a tart, sweet delight.

The French wedding cake.

Sweets

Croquembouche

This French wedding cake is a caramel-wrapped tower of pastry balls.

Medlars' shapes once inspired a lot of jokes.

Fruits & Vegetables

Medlars

The anus-shaped fruit tastes like cinnamon applesauce.

The acidity and light carbonation of magkeolli pairs well with the spicy-sweet flavors of Korean cuisine.

Drinks

Makgeolli

South Korea's oldest alcoholic beverage is making a comeback.

Aligot from Le Politique Austin.

Prepared Foods

Aligot

These extra-cheesy potatoes resemble decadent fondue.

Little purple noses.

Sweets

Cuberdons

The Belgian candy that sparked an epic vendor battle.

A batch of traditional balsamic vinegar from Acetaia di Giorgio.

Ingredients & Condiments

Traditional Balsamic Vinegar

Most people have never tasted the real thing.

Brunost

Meats & Animal Products

Brunost

This “brown cheese” tastes like caramel.

A crispy golden flower.

Prepared Foods

Carciofi alla Giudia

Created in Rome's Jewish ghetto, the fried artichokes herald spring.

One of these peppers could set your mouth on fire.

Fruits & Vegetables

Pimientos de Padrón

Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.

Eggs, hoisin sauce, chili, cilantro, sesame, crunchy wontons, and peking duck.

Prepared Foods

Jiānbǐng

Every morning, Chinese vendors sling savory, crispy crepes to lines of patient fans.

Real mortadella Bologna often contains pistachios.

Meats & Animal Products

Mortadella

Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.

Cassata Siciliana

Sweets

Cassata Siciliana

The seductively delicious Easter cake once made an entire convent neglect its prayers.

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