Foods Nick Has Tried

In this Hungarian campfire treat, roasted pork fat coats slices of bread in decadent drippings.

A crossbred table grape variety that tastes an awful lot like spun sugar.

Brewers are replacing hops with sweet, aromatic herbs to resurrect this extinct beer.

Make like a 19th-century Belgian miner and cool off with this refreshing ale.

The sweet-and-sour soda almost disappeared with the collapse of communist rule in then-Czechoslovakia.

The same grass that feeds massive European bison adds notes of vanilla and lavender to this unique Polish vodka.

Make like Jane Austen and sip from the fountain in this famed Pump Room.

A seasonal Hungarian spritzer has a language all its own.

This multi-layered treat has become a potent symbol of Hungarian-Jewish identity.

After rotating over hot coals, the Transylvanian treat unravels in a sweet spiral.

Hungary's favorite chocolate bar is filled with cheese curd.

These woolly pigs produce the “Kobe beef of pork.”

This Hungarian fried dough can make a rich breakfast or trusty hangover cure.

A bitter liqueur that traces the history of a Hungarian-Jewish family.

Boil away this plant's poisonous hairs, and you're left with a tasty, spinach-like leaf.

A brewery consulted drinking vessels found in the ancient king’s tomb to recreate a 2,700-year-old elixir.

Teething babies and royalty were fans of this British city's signature sherry.

A pharmaceutical company developed this beverage as drinkable IV solution.

Leftover coffee plus gelatin equals this vintage dessert.

This is one expensive load of crap.

Devoted fans pay thousands for bricks of this fermented tea.

This powder proved essential to Arctic exploration, war, and the ice cream parlor.

Bitter, sweet, and salty collide in this cool Taiwanese treat.

Once steamed in shirt sleeves and pant legs, this sweet roll took on the nickname “dead man's leg.”