Fruits & Vegetables
Siwa Oasis Dates
Dates from this desert oasis have been sweetening Egyptian tables since pharaonic times.
Foods I want to try
Foods this traveler wants to try.
Fruits & Vegetables
Dates from this desert oasis have been sweetening Egyptian tables since pharaonic times.
Drinks
A town in East France still makes a beloved green-anise liquor born after the ban of absinthe.
Drinks
This violet-hued liquor is Brazil's oldest spirit.
Prepared Foods
Iceland's thick, chewy "hot spring bread" is just like regular rye bread, with one big difference.
Sweets
After rotating over hot coals, the Transylvanian treat unravels in a sweet spiral.
Drinks
Ancient Celtic settlers brought this honey-based drink to Brittany.
Drinks
Romania's all-occasion plummy spirit.
Prepared Foods
In this island town, stew gets cooked by volcano.
Sweets
A Finnish treat that's sweet, dark, and herbal.
Drinks
With this Dutch liqueur, you can now drink licorice.
Drinks
This grain-free beer was all but forgotten until folk festivals sparked a revival in Kurpie, Poland.
Drinks
If there is anything that should rest on its laurels, it’s probably this laurel-infused digestif.
Drinks
Residents of this Greek island distill mastic sap, the "tears of Chios," into a piney-sweet liqueur.
Ingredients & Condiments
A sweet regional alternative to the maple kind.
Gastro
Revelers roast wieners and “witches” at this annual Czech festival.
Ingredients & Condiments
At 8,000 feet above sea level, glacial irrigation produces a unique heirloom grain.
Prepared Foods
A Jakarta hole-in-the-wall serves what may be the world's spiciest noodles.
Gastro
This hallucinogenic honey can sell for over $60 a pound on the black market.
Drinks
Ground nuts provide the base for this warm, caffeine-free drink.
Drinks
On an island’s moon-like terrain, grapevines creep out of ashen volcanic soil and create extraordinary elixirs.
Fruits & Vegetables
This rare berry grows only in two Chilean towns.
Drinks
This modern adaptation of a 9,000-year-old brew combines elements of beer, wine, and mead.
Drinks
A wine so luxuriously sweet, it's consumed by the spoonful.
Prepared Foods
The ancestral soup of the Q’eqchi’ Maya packs heat and history.