Sweets
Eccles Cake
The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Sweets
The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.
Sweets
A very non-vegan dish inspired this vegan chocolate.
Prepared Foods
This spiraled Balkan pastry requires painstakingly rolling dough into silky sheets.
Fruits & Vegetables
Boil away this plant's poisonous hairs, and you're left with a tasty, spinach-like leaf.
Ingredients & Condiments
The fiery Calabrian meat spread also goes by "red Nutella" and "poor man's Viagra."
Meats & Animal Products
The pungent pickled cheese is a popular Czech bar snack.
Drinks
The sweet-and-sour soda almost disappeared with the collapse of communist rule in then-Czechoslovakia.
Drinks
Beer meets soda in this refreshing Estonian brew.
Ingredients & Condiments
The thrifty Estonian grain mix makes creamy drinks and candy bars.
Sweets
Created during a cocoa shortage, the grain-based “chocolate” bar became an Estonian classic.
Sweets
Chocolate-covered cheese curds make sweet Estonian energy bars.
Ingredients & Condiments
This "Fluid of Beef" fed an army and makes a hearty tea.
Prepared Foods
A completely delicious, nearly nutrient-free sandwich beloved by generations of New Englanders.
Prepared Foods
These savory pastries come from Lithuania's Karaim minority.
Sweets
This dessert is roasted over a fire and looks like a tree.
Drinks
You can find authentic versions of this sour Slavic brew at street stalls and monasteries.
Sweets
This sliceable sweet treat is actually dairy-free.
Sweets
These delicious strands of juice-coated nuts look like colorful candlesticks.
Prepared Foods
Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.
Prepared Foods
Legend has it that a monk hid meat in these dumplings to fool God.
Gastro
These tricky pitchers turned pouring into a complex drinking game.
Sweets
These chocolate-covered peanuts got M&M's banned in Sweden.
Ingredients & Condiments
A legume so loved, it’s caused a “fever” in France and made Americans break laws.
Sweets
A small town is home to a beloved candy invented by one of Sweden's first female entrepreneurs.