Foods jodywillcox Has Tried

A hearty Irish staple that can tell your fortune.

Pair a Brazilian confection with a sweet South African liqueur, and a unique treat is born.

Growing this sweet, tropical fruit sometimes requires careful hand-pollination with a paint brush.

This powder proved essential to Arctic exploration, war, and the ice cream parlor.

Teething babies and royalty were fans of this British city's signature sherry.

The melon has its own sculpture, festival, and order of knights.

Make like Jane Austen and sip from the fountain in this famed Pump Room.

This "Fluid of Beef" fed an army and makes a hearty tea.

Boil away this plant's poisonous hairs, and you're left with a tasty, spinach-like leaf.

The anus-shaped fruit tastes like cinnamon applesauce.

Grown in the volcanic soil around Mt. Vesuvius, these tomatoes are one of only a couple varieties used in authentic Neapolitan pizza.

This “hodgepodge” of affordable ingredients fueled local laborers during the Industrial Revolution.

Only one bakery still makes these hard biscuits that were once beloved by Thomas Hardy.

In Yorkshire, the holidays usher in this salty-sweet combo.

In the 19th century, tin miners ate these handheld pies and left their crusts to appease mischievous, mine-dwelling spirits.

This Canadian favorite is relatively unknown elsewhere.

Neither tea nor hot chocolate, this Caribbean cocoa drink is in a league of its own.

A 2,500-year-old Persian dessert evolved into this Indian summertime favorite.

This meat dish slow-cooks in the embers that heat Moroccan bathhouses.

This ancient token of betrothal lives on as a Valentine's Day gift in Wales.

A sweet and sticky accident from Derbyshire, England.

This rustic cider's name derives from an English term for fruit thievery.

Once steamed in shirt sleeves and pant legs, this sweet roll took on the nickname “dead man's leg.”

This summery parfait has mingled with British royals and literary elites.