Sweets
Mämmi
Traditional Easter pudding, best served untraditionally.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Sweets
Traditional Easter pudding, best served untraditionally.
Prepared Foods
The award-winning Finnish creation was inspired by a diss from Italy's former prime minister.
Sweets
A Finnish treat that's sweet, dark, and herbal.
Prepared Foods
Finally, an edible carrying case for fish.
Prepared Foods
Finns treat this rich, baked cheese like bread.
Prepared Foods
Though its home region has been split by war, love for this hearty pastry transcends borders.
Prepared Foods
This tofu alternative replaces soybeans with sesame and kudzu.
Drinks
Long relegated to moonshine jars, aged corn whiskey is finally getting respect outside Kentucky.
Prepared Foods
This savory Southern staple is disappearing.
Gastro
A sweet and simple pudding traditionally made in a joyous, spring ritual.
Gastro
These intricate stamps are relics from a time when dairy farmers beautifully branded their products.
Ingredients & Condiments
This powder proved essential to Arctic exploration, war, and the ice cream parlor.
Fruits & Vegetables
This nightmarish-looking fruit has serious healing potential.
Ingredients & Condiments
The Haitian peanut butter first tastes creamy, then the peppers hit you.
Gastro
A bloody good candy bar.
Prepared Foods
A pork blood stew so rich and velvety, it's known as “chocolate meat.”
Gastro
The world's least practical and most delicious edible straw.
Sweets
These delicious strands of juice-coated nuts look like colorful candlesticks.
Fruits & Vegetables
Beneath its serpent-like skin lies pineapple-flavored flesh.
Fruits & Vegetables
Slice one open for some citrus caviar.
Fruits & Vegetables
Growing this sweet, tropical fruit sometimes requires careful hand-pollination with a paint brush.
Fruits & Vegetables
This tangy fruit flavors everything from ice cream to cocktails.
Sweets
The dessert that's also a meal.
Drinks
The same grass that feeds massive European bison adds notes of vanilla and lavender to this unique Polish vodka.