Fruits & Vegetables
Stinging Nettles
Boil away this plant's poisonous hairs, and you're left with a tasty, spinach-like leaf.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Fruits & Vegetables
Boil away this plant's poisonous hairs, and you're left with a tasty, spinach-like leaf.
Sweets
For special occasions, Norwegians stack 18 rings of cake into a tower.
Ingredients & Condiments
With a squeeze of lemon, this plant can turn any drink into a color-changing mood ring.
Ingredients & Condiments
This plant adds a hint of vanilla and a wash of brilliant green to any dish.
Sweets
This French wedding cake is a caramel-wrapped tower of pastry balls.
Fruits & Vegetables
Mexico's “mouse melon” is actually a tiny cucumber.
Meats & Animal Products
In the Philippines, fertilized duck eggs are savory snacks.
Ingredients & Condiments
A legume so loved, it’s caused a “fever” in France and made Americans break laws.
Drinks
A fizzy, chocolate drink that harkens back to the days of Brooklyn soda fountains.
Sweets
Cheddar cheese flavors a classic frozen treat in the Philippines.
Fruits & Vegetables
This lucky fruit tastes best in rice.
Meats & Animal Products
Deep-fried grasshoppers make a tangy, crispy taco filling.
Prepared Foods
Spiced meat sauce meets spaghetti, shredded cheese, and beans in a Midwest cult favorite.
Prepared Foods
With extra-gooey cheese and a cracker-thin crust, some say it's more like nachos.
Fruits & Vegetables
Beneath its serpent-like skin lies pineapple-flavored flesh.
Ingredients & Condiments
Most people have never tasted the real thing.
Sweets
The 17th-century dessert plants an isle of meringue in a sea of custard.
Meats & Animal Products
This “brown cheese” tastes like caramel.
Gastro
A fruit so foul, shamans use it to scare evil spirits.
Fruits & Vegetables
Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.
Prepared Foods
Fluffy, crispy, and large enough to share, it's no ordinary pancake.
Sweets
This Dutch-Indonesian cake contains up to 30 layers.
Ingredients & Condiments
Once a treatment for heat stroke, the herbal gel now flavors desserts.
Meats & Animal Products
Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.