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.
Ingredients & Condiments
In ancient Rome, this fermented fish sauce sparked a booming industry.
Drinks
This Southern church group favorite isn't Slavic at all.
Ingredients & Condiments
The Rwandan condiment is so spicy, it's served with eyedroppers.
Ingredients & Condiments
Real maraschinos were born more than a century ago in an Italian distillery.
Drinks
The Detroit favorite is one of the oldest sodas in the United States.
Ingredients & Condiments
This powder proved essential to Arctic exploration, war, and the ice cream parlor.
Ingredients & Condiments
Cooks in the Southern United States still whip up this spicy, seductively sweet condiment from the 1950s.
Sweets
Once made by monks, this candy spends 15 days rolling in sugar syrup to get its pearly-white shell.
Ingredients & Condiments
This savory seafood condiment is named after the finest cognacs.
Prepared Foods
Historians debate whether this dish actually originated with Italian sex workers.
Gastro
The holiday tradition of hiding an ornamental veggie.
Drinks
Bitter, sweet, and salty collide in this cool Taiwanese treat.
Prepared Foods
In the 19th century, tin miners ate these handheld pies and left their crusts to appease mischievous, mine-dwelling spirits.
Sweets
These Polish pre-Lent doughnuts have taken on a life (and an eating contest) of their own in the United States.
Ingredients & Condiments
This pepper's sweet taste and long, slow burn is found in a single town.
Sweets
These almond cakes resembling gold ingots were sold near the Paris stock exchange.
Sweets
Recycling comes to dessert, with delicious outcomes.
Fruits & Vegetables
Snap judgments may spell trouble for what was once the king of California apricots.
Drinks
Pressed from frozen grapes, this prized wine was a sweet accident.
Drinks
Drinkers downed this serious cocktail while hurling heavy rings at posts in the 18th century.
Drinks
A cocktail that originated in a British officers’ club in erstwhile Burma now has fans across the world.
Fruits & Vegetables
Grown in the volcanic soil around Mt. Vesuvius, these tomatoes are one of only a couple varieties used in authentic Neapolitan pizza.
Drinks
Grown only on the volcanic soil of Hawaiʻi’s Big Island, this coffee is known for its subtle, rich flavor and hordes of unscrupulous imitators.