Prepared Foods
Stinky Tofu
Follow your nose through Taipei for this crispy, warm street snack.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Prepared Foods
Follow your nose through Taipei for this crispy, warm street snack.
Drinks
Locals joke that you should be able to “float a horseshoe” on the thick brew.
Prepared Foods
Roadside vendors in the Deep South soften fresh goobers with bubbling brine.
Drinks
This spiced, warming drink may have helped broker peace between warring tribes.
Drinks
Only two silent monks know all 130 plants that go into this herbal liqueur.
Drinks
Before they're filled with brandy, these bottles get attached to trees so pears can grow inside.
Prepared Foods
These pungent fermented soybeans are coated in probiotic slime.
Drinks
This triple-distilled cashew fruit liquor is a source of Goan pride.
Meats & Animal Products
Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.
Gastro
To release steam, Victorian bakers placed whimsical ceramics in their pastries.
Fruits & Vegetables
Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.
Ingredients & Condiments
Most people have never tasted the real thing.
Sweets
The 17th-century dessert plants an isle of meringue in a sea of custard.
Prepared Foods
You eat the shell, too.
Prepared Foods
Meat covered in gelatinous goo was once a classic American comfort food.
Prepared Foods
A completely delicious, nearly nutrient-free sandwich beloved by generations of New Englanders.
Ingredients & Condiments
The Mexican fungal delicacy that makes corn taste like a mushroom.
Prepared Foods
The guinea pig is both food and pet in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador.
Ingredients & Condiments
A century-old organism creates some of the world's best bread.
Prepared Foods
This is what happens when soldiers pick a new name for meat on bread.
Drinks
Turning this cocktail into a fluffy cloud is easy—just hire someone to shake it for 12 minutes straight.
Fruits & Vegetables
This "green caviar" is vegetarian friendly.
Prepared Foods
Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.
Sweets
These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.