Meats & Animal Products
Surströmming
The pickled Baltic herring has an explosive reputation.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Meats & Animal Products
The pickled Baltic herring has an explosive reputation.
Ingredients & Condiments
A fragrant, difficult-to-harvest delicacy from the Scottish moorlands.
Sweets
Hungary's favorite chocolate bar is filled with cheese curd.
Fruits & Vegetables
The washed and dried root of the licorice plant was once a popular natural “candy.”
Sweets
The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.
Sweets
This gooey, sweet treat was a Soviet staple.
Prepared Foods
The Irish bread comes with raisins and omens.
Prepared Foods
A hangover cure that spans classes and centuries.
Prepared Foods
This German comfort food unites earthbound potatoes with apples from above.
Sweets
The sweet is naturally a bubblegum shade of pink.
Sweets
A decadent dessert whose Italian name translates to “nipples of Venus.”
Meats & Animal Products
The Galician cheese named for a nipple and brought to you by “blonde” cows.
Meats & Animal Products
For a brief seasonal window in Spain, snails go from dreaded pests to coveted tapas.
Sweets
This sweet Scottish pudding gets boiled in a bag for special occasions.
Prepared Foods
Spread this fat-poached meat on a crusty French loaf.
Sweets
A Finnish treat that's sweet, dark, and herbal.
Sweets
These Dutch doughnuts are classic New Year's treats.
Prepared Foods
This spiraled Balkan pastry requires painstakingly rolling dough into silky sheets.
Prepared Foods
The secret to this sandwich is the cow’s fourth stomach.
Gastro
Don your party hat, sing, and chow down at these seasonal Swedish crayfish feasts.
Gastro
Pay tribute to the poet Robert Burns with bagpipes, readings, and heaping helpings of haggis.
Prepared Foods
Scotland's beloved traditional dish is deep-fried and served up fast-food style.
Prepared Foods
A hearty Irish staple that can tell your fortune.
Food Festivals
At this Scottish porridge-making competition, contestants vie to be the champions of breakfast.