Gastro
Chekich
These bread stamps create a dazzling array of geometric and floral patterns.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Gastro
These bread stamps create a dazzling array of geometric and floral patterns.
Prepared Foods
Once an important Silk Road stop, a fortified Uzbek city specializes in bright green noodles.
Drinks
Infants and Genghis Khan enjoyed this fermented mare's milk.
Gastro
Kyrgyzstan’s fried dough marks special occasions and "feeds" the dead.
Drinks
The fiery fruit brandy of the Balkans.
Gastro
The traditional way to send a stream of wine straight to your mouth.
Drinks
The same grass that feeds massive European bison adds notes of vanilla and lavender to this unique Polish vodka.
Drinks
Anyone for a shot of “Black Death”?
Prepared Foods
Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.
Ingredients & Condiments
This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.
Fruits & Vegetables
Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.
Prepared Foods
A sandwich so decadent, it was once inappropriate for women to order one.
Meats & Animal Products
Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.
Gastro
“And eggs are open in the twinkling of an eye.”
Drinks
A bitter liqueur that traces the history of a Hungarian-Jewish family.
Ingredients & Condiments
This jelly is made with dandelions and tastes like honey.
Drinks
Brewers freeze their beer to make this high-octane, sweet style.
Prepared Foods
The pungent, wind-dried white fish is a traditional Icelandic food.
Drinks
You can find authentic versions of this sour Slavic brew at street stalls and monasteries.
Prepared Foods
This Hungarian fried dough can make a rich breakfast or trusty hangover cure.
Sweets
This dessert pays tribute to the snow-covered mountains surrounding Salzburg.
Drinks
The sweet-and-sour soda almost disappeared with the collapse of communist rule in then-Czechoslovakia.
Sweets
These pull-apart rolls were once baked with lottery tickets in the center.
Fruits & Vegetables
Boil away this plant's poisonous hairs, and you're left with a tasty, spinach-like leaf.