Prepared Foods
Paan
This chewable Indian digestive soothes stomachs, freshens breath, and might give you cancer.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Prepared Foods
This chewable Indian digestive soothes stomachs, freshens breath, and might give you cancer.
Prepared Foods
Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.
Prepared Foods
England's take on the Mexican meal wraps a Yorkshire pudding around meaty fillings.
Sweets
This traditional dessert commemorates the country's sweet taste of victory over the French emperor in 1812.
Sweets
This pink cake celebrates a long-ago football victory.
Meats & Animal Products
Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.
Drinks
The unique style born out of the California Gold Rush blends the crispness of a lager with the flavor of an ale.
Meats & Animal Products
Some fish can dance.
Meats & Animal Products
These rare, hand-pulled strands of cheese are making a comeback in southwestern Georgia.
Meats & Animal Products
This spiced jerky is a beloved snack in South Africa.
Gastro
Cosmonauts and astronauts reheated food and formed bonds over this high-tech table.
Drinks
The Japanese soda still comes in a marble-stoppered bottle from the 19th century.
Prepared Foods
A wartime rice scarcity made this versatile pancake a Japanese staple.
Prepared Foods
Osaka's most famous dish is an octopus-stuffed fried dough ball.
Prepared Foods
These pungent fermented soybeans are coated in probiotic slime.
Sweets
In the 1960s, Royal Air Force pilots made a startling discovery about their sweets.
Sweets
After rotating over hot coals, the Transylvanian treat unravels in a sweet spiral.
Drinks
A citrusy cream soda with a hint of rust outsells Coca-Cola in Scotland.
Ingredients & Condiments
A fragrant, difficult-to-harvest delicacy from the Scottish moorlands.
Drinks
Tarragon provides the herbal kick to this neon-green Georgian soda.
Sweets
The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.
Sweets
Armenians were making these sweet sheets of dried fruit centuries before the Fruit Roll-Up.
Prepared Foods
Spread this fat-poached meat on a crusty French loaf.
Drinks
The aroma of this mulled wine has been compared to “a warmed-up bowl of Froot Loops.”