Prepared Foods
Maultaschen
Legend has it that a monk hid meat in these dumplings to fool God.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Prepared Foods
Legend has it that a monk hid meat in these dumplings to fool God.
Gastro
This coffee additive and killer of trees has a reputation as a medical marvel.
Fruits & Vegetables
This rare, distinguished North Carolina melon once fed presidents and kings.
Fruits & Vegetables
The anus-shaped fruit tastes like cinnamon applesauce.
Sweets
In the 1960s, Royal Air Force pilots made a startling discovery about their sweets.
Fruits & Vegetables
Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.
Meats & Animal Products
Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.
Drinks
Tarragon provides the herbal kick to this neon-green Georgian soda.
Drinks
The aroma of this mulled wine has been compared to “a warmed-up bowl of Froot Loops.”
Gastro
This device bucks the Russian tradition of sharing a cup of tea and makes just enough hot water for one person.
Sweets
To do Christmas right, Italians turn to heavenly chestnuts.
Drinks
The sweet-and-sour soda almost disappeared with the collapse of communist rule in then-Czechoslovakia.
Fruits & Vegetables
The melon has its own sculpture, festival, and order of knights.
Sweets
Once steamed in shirt sleeves and pant legs, this sweet roll took on the nickname “dead man's leg.”
Fruits & Vegetables
Apples are red, blueberries are blue / But these pommes d’amour are red inside, too.
Fruits & Vegetables
Grown in the volcanic soil around Mt. Vesuvius, these tomatoes are one of only a couple varieties used in authentic Neapolitan pizza.
Drinks
On an island’s moon-like terrain, grapevines creep out of ashen volcanic soil and create extraordinary elixirs.
Prepared Foods
This bird comes with a brew inside.
Sweets
This sweet spud is neither made with tubers, nor of Irish origin.
Prepared Foods
No slugs were harmed in the making of this five-cent sandwich.
Fruits & Vegetables
The Catalan green onion has its own festival.
Ingredients & Condiments
This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.
Gastro
A New Year's Eve tradition of scarfing down 12 grapes for good luck.
Sweets
After rotating over hot coals, the Transylvanian treat unravels in a sweet spiral.