Foods murrayalisonb Wants to Try

This Southeast Asian leaf can wake you up, knock you out, and subdue heroin withdrawal.

Iceland's annual tradition of rounding up 800,000 sheep.

Osaka's most famous dish is an octopus-stuffed fried dough ball.

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

Catholics once circumvented meatless fasts by claiming the semi-aquatic rodent was a fish.

Depending on how they're prepared, these caterpillars can taste like everything from tea to a well-done steak.

Beekeepers in the United States' southeastern swamplands are fighting to preserve this smooth, sweet delicacy.

This fruit can also count as dessert.

This fruit either burns your throat or tastes like a tropical medley.

In Central America, custard grows on trees.

These palm flower clusters resemble tentacles of baby corn.

This palm fruit has a surprisingly meaty flavor.

The portable breakfast food might've originated with British soldiers returning from India.

This regional Russian delicacy once called itself Parisian.

Five producers in one English seaside town use historic chimneys to cold-smoke salmon and haddock overnight.

Lauded by poets, a Scottish town's hot-smoked haddock may date back to the Vikings.

This century-old New Orleans treat is still sold from a mule-drawn cart.

“Fiji asparagus” isn't asparagus at all.

This chocolate-coated confection's crisp, bubbly structure is well-suited to the even crisper Buffalo air.

All but absent from supermarket shelves, this heirloom peach is a sweet secret in Southerners' backyard gardens.

This pristine honey with a cool menthol aftertaste is produced by honeybees that feast on a Hawaiian mesquite forest.

Snap judgments may spell trouble for what was once the king of California apricots.

Elusive in its country of origin, this multilayer cake has found a home in Manitoba's “New Iceland” region.

Around British Columbia's Osoyoos Lake, community efforts have revived the population of a fluorescent fish.