Foods jarnew Wants to Try

The decadent, overloaded Russian pie once contained sturgeon spinal cord.

Spiced meat sauce meets spaghetti, shredded cheese, and beans in a Midwest cult favorite.

The city loves hot sausage slathered with cold cream cheese.

Indian harvesters endure painful bites to make an intensely spicy paste.

Soda mixed with milk creates this frosty, creamy drink.

This fermented purple carrot elixir practically makes itself.

Peru's purple drink made from purple corn.

You'll have a ball with this Latin American specialty.

One of the world's least-loved liquors calls Chicago home.

These severed octopus tentacles wriggle on your plate.

In the city of Potosí, a steamy soup bubbles from the heat of volcanic rocks.

A prehistoric sea monster sucks blood, then gets cooked in its own.

This Mexican candy reimagines a spaghetti dinner with spicy-sour gummy noodles and tamarind sauce.

Scandinavians use blood to make dense, dark, savory flapjacks.

It's expensive, it's gelatinous, it's made from swiftlet spit.

It's not Bajan Independence Day without banana leaf–wrapped corn cakes.

Jamaica's spicy goat soup is also an aphrodisiac.

The Mesoamerican plant is used as a hallucinogen, medicine, and aphrodisiac.