Foods jht1993 Has Tried

These old-school metal tea-glass holders are a fixture on Russian trains.

Russian Mardi Gras features blinis, fistfights, and burning effigies.

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

Usually, the only heat that gets close to this raw pork fat is a sprinkle of pepper.

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

The caffeinated wine is made by British monks and loved by Scottish criminals.

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

A rare orchid ingredient makes this ice cream stretchy and chewy.

The most sobering salad of the Russian Civil War.

Savory meat jelly with a dollop of spicy mustard is a customary New Year's dish in Russia.

The first thing eaten off the Ark.

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

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

After rotating over hot coals, the Transylvanian treat unravels in a sweet spiral.

These gigantic clay pots are the secret to Georgia's unusual wine.

Make like Dostoyevsky and restore yourself with this Russian mineral.

A citrusy cream soda with a hint of rust outsells Coca-Cola in Scotland.

A bitter liqueur that traces the history of a Hungarian-Jewish family.

Traditional Tuvan booze is made from milk and distilled in a hollowed-out tree trunk.

Locals joke that you should be able to “float a horseshoe” on the thick brew.

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

The fiery fruit brandy of the Balkans.

Romania's all-occasion plummy spirit.

These ornately decorated spice cookies developed alongside a Russian city's gun industry.