Foods seemalkarthik Has Tried

This edible silver garnish has long added bling to South Asian cuisine.

In Hyderabad, vendors sizzle up spicy fried brains.

The city of the Taj Mahal hosts another wonder: Crystallized pumpkin candy.

The hot dog chain’s charming “bi-dent” picks up potatoes with ease.

A bar sharing a basement with a pickle place led to an unusual drink.

Spread this fat-poached meat on a crusty French loaf.

Artichokes form the backbone of this vegetal liqueur.

Some Bretons claim that their signature treat is the fattiest pastry in the world.

An ancient cooking method still produces delicious, beachside feasts.

A cake as dark as a city hiding from enemy bombers.

A crossbred table grape variety that tastes an awful lot like spun sugar.

These Portuguese doughnuts have a fervent fanbase in Hawaii.

Celebrate the harvest and the return of a beloved mythical king with this 26-dish Malayali feast.

This sugar-soaked South Asian sweet isn’t your basic bread pudding.

A 2,500-year-old Persian dessert evolved into this Indian summertime favorite.

A complexly flavored post-meal digestive became the candy of choice for Indian children in the 1980s and ’90s.

This sweet and salty Indian drink keeps an endangered soda bottle in business.

A pharmaceutical company developed this beverage as drinkable IV solution.

These almond cakes resembling gold ingots were sold near the Paris stock exchange.

This is one expensive load of crap.

The fruit so pungent it's banned from trains, hotels, and public places.

This annual offering involves four million women, one goddess, and incredible quantities of rice pudding.

In this Hindu ritual, families feed crows who represent deceased relatives.

You put the grater in the coconut...