Drinks
Amarula Cream Liqueur
A sweet and nutty liqueur made with the fruit of the "elephant tree."
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Drinks
A sweet and nutty liqueur made with the fruit of the "elephant tree."
Sweets
These delicious strands of juice-coated nuts look like colorful candlesticks.
Sweets
An unlikely pairing of honeycomb toffee and purple seaweed.
Sweets
Armenians were making these sweet sheets of dried fruit centuries before the Fruit Roll-Up.
Ingredients & Condiments
You can roast your potatoes in this rendered fat, or just spread it on bread and eat it cold.
Prepared Foods
This spiraled Balkan pastry requires painstakingly rolling dough into silky sheets.
Prepared Foods
Belgium's stew of beef and abbey-style ale is essentially bourguignon for beer lovers.
Prepared Foods
Finish all your Latvian peas for good luck in the New Year.
Drinks
There's a legend that this Latvian herbal liqueur saved an ailing Catherine the Great.
Prepared Foods
Once ubiquitous throughout the city, shops serving this unique Pakistani curry are disappearing.
Drinks
Locals joke that you should be able to “float a horseshoe” on the thick brew.
Prepared Foods
This Canadian favorite is relatively unknown elsewhere.
Ingredients & Condiments
The fairest and rarest of them all.
Sweets
These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.
Ingredients & Condiments
The fiery Calabrian meat spread also goes by "red Nutella" and "poor man's Viagra."
Drinks
A citrusy cream soda with a hint of rust outsells Coca-Cola in Scotland.
Drinks
The fiery fruit brandy of the Balkans.
Drinks
The aroma of this mulled wine has been compared to “a warmed-up bowl of Froot Loops.”
Drinks
The same grass that feeds massive European bison adds notes of vanilla and lavender to this unique Polish vodka.
Drinks
Before they're filled with brandy, these bottles get attached to trees so pears can grow inside.
Sweets
The first thing eaten off the Ark.
Prepared Foods
The portable breakfast food might've originated with British soldiers returning from India.
Drinks
One of the smallest cities in the world specializes in mistletoe brandy.
Prepared Foods
This sweet-and-savory Moroccan meat pie can be tough to track down.