Foods Olivia Petra Coman Has Tried

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Foods I've tried

Foods this traveler has tried.

The Verbena cocktail at the Chandelier Bar at The Cosmopolitan.

Ingredients & Condiments

Szechuan Button

This herb gives cocktails another kind of buzz.

Tonka beans look a bit like raisins.

Ingredients & Condiments

Tonka Beans

A legume so loved, it’s caused a “fever” in France and made Americans break laws.

Marabou M Peanut

Sweets

Marabou M Peanut

These chocolate-covered peanuts got M&M's banned in Sweden.

The molten cheese center cooks the egg and melts the butter.

Prepared Foods

Adjaruli Khachapuri

Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.

Choose between a plastic spoon and a wafer to scoop up the dripping gelato.

Sweets

Brioche con Gelato

Some Sicilians start their day with this decadent combination.

Cassata Siciliana

Sweets

Cassata Siciliana

The seductively delicious Easter cake once made an entire convent neglect its prayers.

Țuică

Drinks

Țuică

Romania's all-occasion plummy spirit.

Koliva, bearing the sign of the cross.

Gastro

Koliva

Drooling over this nutty spiced dessert is a heretical move.

Chimney Cake

Sweets

Chimney Cake

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

A pot of boiled nettles means savory greens and earthy tea.

Fruits & Vegetables

Stinging Nettles

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

Faloodeh at Sofreh, in Brooklyn.

Sweets

Faloodeh

This crunchy, sweet, and tart noodle sorbet is one of the world's oldest frozen desserts.