Foods lattedeisogni Has Tried

Beneath its serpent-like skin lies pineapple-flavored flesh.

Sri Lanka's crispy, bowl-shaped pancake comes with an egg at the bottom.

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

Peru's strikingly beautiful mashed potato casserole.

Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.

These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.

These expensive and dangerous-to-harvest barnacles were once confused for goose eggs.

Most people have never tasted the real thing.

Created in Rome's Jewish ghetto, the fried artichokes herald spring.

Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.

A sandwich so decadent, it was once inappropriate for women to order one.

Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.

Catalan chefs transform the slimy, bottom-feeding sea cucumber into subtle, succulent meat.

The seductively delicious Easter cake once made an entire convent neglect its prayers.

Pressed from frozen grapes, this prized wine was a sweet accident.

The fiery Calabrian meat spread also goes by "red Nutella" and "poor man's Viagra."

The vineyards of Mount Vesuvius still produce the same wines enjoyed by the ancient Romans.

This ricotta and marzipan pastry honors the Sicilian saint's most noteworthy body part.

Once an insect-dyed health tonic, this liqueur now adds a scarlet tint to Italian pastries.

Venetians celebrate the end of a 16th-century plague with sweet and sour sardines.

These inky cloves have aged like a fine wine.

Locals joke that you should be able to “float a horseshoe” on the thick brew.

This spiced jerky is a beloved snack in South Africa.

The sweet is naturally a bubblegum shade of pink.