Fruits & Vegetables
Cherimoya
Growing this sweet, tropical fruit sometimes requires careful hand-pollination with a paint brush.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Fruits & Vegetables
Growing this sweet, tropical fruit sometimes requires careful hand-pollination with a paint brush.
Sweets
This candy rarely ventures beyond Canada's borders.
Ingredients & Condiments
This powder proved essential to Arctic exploration, war, and the ice cream parlor.
Drinks
The Detroit favorite is one of the oldest sodas in the United States.
Ingredients & Condiments
This savory seafood condiment is named after the finest cognacs.
Gastro
These beautiful wooden cups are traditionally carved from birch tree burls.
Gastro
These intricate stamps are relics from a time when dairy farmers beautifully branded their products.
Fruits & Vegetables
Slice one open for some citrus caviar.
Gastro
To make the perfect matcha, start with the perfect whisk.
Prepared Foods
This Canadian favorite is relatively unknown elsewhere.
Drinks
Pressed from frozen grapes, this prized wine was a sweet accident.
Drinks
Welcome fall in Germany with this fizzy, refreshing young wine and a slice of savory onion tart.
Drinks
A pharmaceutical company developed this beverage as drinkable IV solution.
Ingredients & Condiments
This pepper's sweet taste and long, slow burn is found in a single town.
Drinks
A cocktail that originated in a British officers’ club in erstwhile Burma now has fans across the world.
Drinks
After thriving during Prohibition, this soda fountain staple was immortalized in a song by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Fruits & Vegetables
Grown in the volcanic soil around Mt. Vesuvius, these tomatoes are one of only a couple varieties used in authentic Neapolitan pizza.
Sweets
This chocolate-coated confection's crisp, bubbly structure is well-suited to the even crisper Buffalo air.
Fruits & Vegetables
This rare, distinguished North Carolina melon once fed presidents and kings.
Meats & Animal Products
Around British Columbia's Osoyoos Lake, community efforts have revived the population of a fluorescent fish.
Gastro
A New Year's Eve tradition of scarfing down 12 grapes for good luck.
Drinks
Infants and Genghis Khan enjoyed this fermented mare's milk.
Drinks
Only two silent monks know all 130 plants that go into this herbal liqueur.
Drinks
A spirit that toasts a time when proofing your liquor meant setting it aflame.