Drinks
Beaujolais Nouveau
When the clock strikes midnight on the third Thursday of November, fans gather to celebrate the release of this fresh, fruity wine.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Drinks
When the clock strikes midnight on the third Thursday of November, fans gather to celebrate the release of this fresh, fruity wine.
Prepared Foods
Spread this fat-poached meat on a crusty French loaf.
Sweets
Where maple sap flows, all one needs to make taffy is snow.
Prepared Foods
In Turkey, drinkers head off hangovers with creamy tripe soup.
Drinks
Locals joke that you should be able to “float a horseshoe” on the thick brew.
Drinks
You can find authentic versions of this sour Slavic brew at street stalls and monasteries.
Meats & Animal Products
The pickled Baltic herring has an explosive reputation.
Prepared Foods
Meet Sweden's savory “sandwich cake.”
Ingredients & Condiments
This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.
Meats & Animal Products
"Monk's Head" cheese requires a special shaver.
Drinks
In Lisbon, tiny, standing-room-only bars specialize in this sour cherry liqueur.
Meats & Animal Products
For a brief seasonal window in Spain, snails go from dreaded pests to coveted tapas.
Prepared Foods
On the Andalusian coast, once-deadly tentacles become crispy delicacies.
Sweets
Once steamed in shirt sleeves and pant legs, this sweet roll took on the nickname “dead man's leg.”
Sweets
To do Christmas right, Italians turn to heavenly chestnuts.
Meats & Animal Products
Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.
Prepared Foods
Historians debate whether this dish actually originated with Italian sex workers.
Ingredients & Condiments
Most people have never tasted the real thing.
Sweets
This layered pastry from Italy's Amalfi Coast may have origins in a 17th-century convent.
Prepared Foods
Bread so thin, you can read music through the dough.
Prepared Foods
Made only in one Sardinian village, these sun-dried pasta spirals are crafted twist by painstaking twist.
Drinks
Only two silent monks know all 130 plants that go into this herbal liqueur.
Sweets
This French wedding cake is a caramel-wrapped tower of pastry balls.
Sweets
Some Bretons claim that their signature treat is the fattiest pastry in the world.