Foods Mme Melissande Has Tried

Spread this fat-poached meat on a crusty French loaf.

The melon has its own sculpture, festival, and order of knights.

These almond cakes resembling gold ingots were sold near the Paris stock exchange.

These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.

This French wedding cake is a caramel-wrapped tower of pastry balls.

Some Bretons claim that their signature treat is the fattiest pastry in the world.

Come to vote, leave with a sausage.

Curry powder gives this savory seasoning its golden hue.

This classic Australian candy looks like pink toothpaste and tastes like perfume.

A rainbow of flavor that harks back to childhood.

This chocolate-flavored superfood falls from the Australian Acacia bush.

The world's least practical and most delicious edible straw.