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Foods this traveler has tried.

Tonka beans look a bit like raisins.

Ingredients & Condiments

Tonka Beans

A legume so loved, it’s caused a “fever” in France and made Americans break laws.

Cherimoya

Fruits & Vegetables

Cherimoya

Growing this sweet, tropical fruit sometimes requires careful hand-pollination with a paint brush.

Colcannon with scallions and bacon.

Prepared Foods

Colcannon

A hearty Irish staple that can tell your fortune.

Carrageen Moss Pudding

Sweets

Carrageen Moss Pudding

This sweet, silky Irish pudding has a secret ingredient: seaweed.

Your friendly rolex chef will commonly add chopped tomatoes and onions to your omelette, and if you bring an avocado like we did, they'll chop that into your rolex too!

Prepared Foods

Rolex

Say “roll eggs” super fast in Uganda and you'll receive something far tastier than a luxury watch.

Marsh Samphire

Fruits & Vegetables

Marsh Samphire

The briny “asparagus of the sea” grows along coasts around the world.

Caffeinated salad—how efficient.

Prepared Foods

Lahpet Thoke

In Myanmar, fermented tea leaves make a tangy, caffeinated salad.

Lindisfarne Mead

Drinks

Lindisfarne Mead

The best place to find the “nectar of the gods” is Holy Island.

Ptasie Mleczko with coconut, but still no actual bird's milk.

Sweets

Bird Milk Chocolate

The marshmallow-based candy is named for a delicacy just out of the ancient Greeks' reach.

Lobster organs can taste extra lobstery.

Meats & Animal Products

Tomalley

That green stuff inside a lobster? You can (usually) eat it.

Malasadas

Sweets

Malasadas

These Portuguese doughnuts have a fervent fanbase in Hawaii.

The Christmas Pickle

Gastro

The Christmas Pickle

The holiday tradition of hiding an ornamental veggie.

Nanaimo Bar

Sweets

Nanaimo Bar

From postwar dessert to sweet slice of Canadian identity.

A few dashes are sufficient.

Ingredients & Condiments

Maggi Seasoning

This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.

Ruby Chocolate

Sweets

Ruby Chocolate

The sweet is naturally a bubblegum shade of pink.

Cooking with big-bottomed ants.

Meats & Animal Products

Big-Bottomed Ants

Catch these fiercely guarded queens for a crunchy, caviar-flavored snack.

A matera with the owner's thermos and bombilla sticking out the top.

Gastro

Materas

These purses help Uruguayans drink mate anytime, anywhere.

Mandazi

Sweets

Mandazi

Across East Africa, these cardamom-flavored doughnuts are the perfect pairing for chai.

Fresh-pressed pandan leaf adds a limey glow to this refresher.

Ingredients & Condiments

Pandan Leaf Extract

This plant adds a hint of vanilla and a wash of brilliant green to any dish.

The sweet dish is often topped with raisins.

Sweets

Dulce de Leche Cortada

This sweet, caramelized dessert comes from curdled milk.

A layer-by-layer look at the colorful salad.

Prepared Foods

Herring Under a Fur Coat

The most sobering salad of the Russian Civil War.

Behold, fry sauce!

Ingredients & Condiments

Fry Sauce

It's so much more than just mayonnaise and ketchup.

Kvass

Drinks

Kvass

You can find authentic versions of this sour Slavic brew at street stalls and monasteries.

Túró Rudi

Sweets

Túró Rudi

Hungary's favorite chocolate bar is filled with cheese curd.

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