Foods melodml Wants to Try

Neither tea nor hot chocolate, this Caribbean cocoa drink is in a league of its own.

When half of Barbados’s national dish migrated across maritime borders, drama ensued.

The Haitian mushroom transforms rice into an inky, earthy delicacy.

The Haitian peanut butter first tastes creamy, then the peppers hit you.

Caribbean tree bark gives this drink its bittersweet flavor.

The signature dish of “the Crazy Woman” and the city of Granada.

This 50-ingredient salad is for both the living and the dead.

Fruit soaks in rum for up to a year to make this rich Caribbean Christmas cake.

This fruit can also count as dessert.

Jamaica's national fruit is poisonous and resembles scrambled eggs.

Drinking algae has never been sexier.

This beer was popular more than 3,000 years ago.

It takes only two hours for palm sap to become palm wine.

This Moroccan butter ferments underground for years and smells like blue cheese.

A desert dweller’s delight, this bread gets baked in sand.

This Saharan sand-baked fare is nicknamed “Berber pizza.”

A gesture of welcome and respect, Moroccan mint tea gets poured from high above the glass.

Delve into the inner stalls of the city's market and find this prized delicacy.

In this Moroccan street specialty, whole-roasted lamb is cooked in underground clay pits and sold by weight.

Journey into the Marrakesh Kasbah to find this lean, slightly sweet favorite.

In South Africa, women transform a tart fruit into a celebrated sour brew.

The fragrant, intricately spiced street food is a medina specialty.

This meat dish slow-cooks in the embers that heat Moroccan bathhouses.

This sweet-and-savory Moroccan meat pie can be tough to track down.