Foods ktknoll Wants to Try

These Southeast Asian legumes are famed for their lasting funk and deliciously nutty flavor.

Meet Sweden's savory “sandwich cake.”

This old-school Italian dish comes in a rich and savory wrapper.

From hulking plains creatures comes a delicate, nutty cheese.

Nothing says “happy holidays” quite like mulled wine and a flaming, rum-soaked sugar loaf.

This wheat-based coffee alternative has a cult following.

This palm fruit has a surprisingly meaty flavor.

Its deep-fried crust is part of a longstanding Neapolitan tradition.

This small-batch spirit is distilled from cactus fruit.

Finnish immigrants brought these crunchy, cinnamon-coated slices to Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

One of the smallest cities in the world specializes in mistletoe brandy.

Fermenting raw durian is a better idea than you thought.

In Catalonia, the fortified wine has its own weekend ritual.

Preparing a traditional Māori feast requires a rock pit heated by fire or hot springs.

Binghamton celebrates its sandwich of marinated meat cubes at a yearly hot air balloon festival.

The original “nails” have disappeared from this cheese-smothered, horseshoe-shaped ham dish.

This dessert pays tribute to the snow-covered mountains surrounding Salzburg.

Once made by monks, this candy spends 15 days rolling in sugar syrup to get its pearly-white shell.

A town harvest festival with a giant miso soup bowl.

This sweet symbolic figurine is a Sicilian holiday tradition.

This beloved Russian dessert is the brainchild of Soviet-era housewives with meat grinders.

This ruby, tannic style is little-known outside its native Bulgaria.

In Peru, layers of potatoes, meat, and sweets are steamed in a pit filled with volcanic rocks.

Worlds collide in this braided bread that tastes like brioche and is meant to look like Mount Fuji.