Foods IrajV Wants to Try

There's a legend that this Latvian herbal liqueur saved an ailing Catherine the Great.

In a Romanian village, a cave's unique conditions produce a rare, funky cheese.

These savory pastries come from Lithuania's Karaim minority.

These rare, hand-pulled strands of cheese are making a comeback in southwestern Georgia.

This regional Russian delicacy once called itself Parisian.

Residents of this Greek island distill mastic sap, the "tears of Chios," into a piney-sweet liqueur.

The modest root vegetable makes a potent liquor in Wildschönau, Austria.

A small town is home to a beloved candy invented by one of Sweden's first female entrepreneurs.

Apples are red, blueberries are blue / But these pommes d’amour are red inside, too.

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

Iceland's thick, chewy "hot spring bread" is just like regular rye bread, with one big difference.

It's the fat-fueled energy drink of the Tibetan Plateau.

The world's most expensive cheese is made from Balkan donkey milk.

This Christmas bread is formed in the shape of the baby Jesus.

The first thing eaten off the Ark.

The dessert that's also a meal.

This Christmas tree elixir kept Vikings and Captain Cook alive.

Most people have never tasted the real thing.

A fruit so foul, shamans use it to scare evil spirits.

These French candies originally came in seashells.

A medieval food fight supposedly inspired this annual competition.

The best place to find the “nectar of the gods” is Holy Island.

To earn a waffle from these vendors, you must first play a game of roulette.

The vineyards of Mount Vesuvius still produce the same wines enjoyed by the ancient Romans.