Foods kosixx Has Tried

Deer antlers were once essential to light and fluffy baking.

This “brown cheese” tastes like caramel.

This sweet, cheese-filled Norwegian flatbread keeps Nordlanders nourished during the long winter.

Sardinia may be home to the oldest style of cheese.

This once-common spice is now almost completely unknown outside India.

South Koreans turned this simple grain into a nutty energy drink.

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

The Japanese soda still comes in a marble-stoppered bottle from the 19th century.

A New Year's Eve tradition of scarfing down 12 grapes for good luck.

Pulling apart this dish creates silk-like threads of melted sugar.

The candy is huge with Norwegian hikers and skiers.

It's a whirlpool, it's an emoji, it's a fishcake!

The fruit so pungent it's banned from trains, hotels, and public places.

The pickled Baltic herring has an explosive reputation.

Iceland's fermented, dried shark smells like urine and can taste like strong cheese.

Denmark's open-faced sandwiches are equal parts decadent and decorative.

The key to this colorful holiday sandwich is extra-crispy pork skin.

The aroma of this mulled wine has been compared to “a warmed-up bowl of Froot Loops.”

At Danish birthday parties, you can have your cake and decapitate it, too.

This Danish rice pudding appeases wicked elves.

This sugar-soaked South Asian sweet isn’t your basic bread pudding.

In this Dutch holiday tradition, Sinterklaas leaves good children sweet pieces of the alphabet inside their shoes.

For a meaty essence, producers dangle raw chicken breast over their stills.

This fizzy, tropical drink has ancient roots in Mexico.