Drinks
T’ej
Ethiopian honey wine is sweet, funky, and perfect with injera.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Drinks
Ethiopian honey wine is sweet, funky, and perfect with injera.
Drinks
This ruby, tannic style is little-known outside its native Bulgaria.
Prepared Foods
Fluffy, crispy, and large enough to share, it's no ordinary pancake.
Prepared Foods
These pungent fermented soybeans are coated in probiotic slime.
Prepared Foods
Japanese cooks riff on American diner food with this rice-and-ketchup omelet.
Sweets
From postwar dessert to sweet slice of Canadian identity.
Prepared Foods
A wartime rice scarcity made this versatile pancake a Japanese staple.
Drinks
The same grass that feeds massive European bison adds notes of vanilla and lavender to this unique Polish vodka.
Drinks
Pressed from frozen grapes, this prized wine was a sweet accident.
Ingredients & Condiments
These inky cloves have aged like a fine wine.
Fruits & Vegetables
The oldest fruit native to North America is probably the least known.
Fruits & Vegetables
The fruit so pungent it's banned from trains, hotels, and public places.
Fruits & Vegetables
These salted, pickled plums are an ancient Japanese hangover cure.
Fruits & Vegetables
This jewel-like corn became an internet sensation.
Fruits & Vegetables
This nightmarish-looking fruit has serious healing potential.
Fruits & Vegetables
A crossbred table grape variety that tastes an awful lot like spun sugar.
Prepared Foods
It's fishy how close to an omelette this is.
Ingredients & Condiments
Curry powder gives this savory seasoning its golden hue.
Prepared Foods
Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.
Sweets
In the 1960s, Royal Air Force pilots made a startling discovery about their sweets.
Sweets
This Dutch-Indonesian cake contains up to 30 layers.
Prepared Foods
This spiraled Balkan pastry requires painstakingly rolling dough into silky sheets.
Meats & Animal Products
Dutch travelers who want the taste of home can always pack “vacation cheese.”
Drinks
The aroma of this mulled wine has been compared to “a warmed-up bowl of Froot Loops.”