Sweets
Kava
The South Pacific's shrub-based drink causes relaxation, euphoria, and a tingling sensation.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Sweets
The South Pacific's shrub-based drink causes relaxation, euphoria, and a tingling sensation.
Sweets
This tasty Czech pastry is now a Texan tradition.
Drinks
The unique style born out of the California Gold Rush blends the crispness of a lager with the flavor of an ale.
Ingredients & Condiments
A century-old organism creates some of the world's best bread.
Drinks
Donn Beach wrote the recipe for his famously potent cocktail in secret code.
Drinks
Long relegated to moonshine jars, aged corn whiskey is finally getting respect outside Kentucky.
Drinks
Before refrigeration, mixing fruit with sugar and vinegar extended its shelf life and made for a tasty drink.
Prepared Foods
Satisfy your midnight munchies with this Franken-feast out of St. Louis, Missouri.
Prepared Foods
The original “nails” have disappeared from this cheese-smothered, horseshoe-shaped ham dish.
Prepared Foods
This style of fried chicken is pressure-cooked while it fries.
Drinks
One of the world's least-loved liquors calls Chicago home.
Drinks
Turning this cocktail into a fluffy cloud is easy—just hire someone to shake it for 12 minutes straight.
Drinks
This bright green cocktail doubles as dessert.
Sweets
The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.
Drinks
When the clock strikes midnight on the third Thursday of November, fans gather to celebrate the release of this fresh, fruity wine.
Prepared Foods
Spread this fat-poached meat on a crusty French loaf.
Gastro
This flat, silver spoon holds an exalted place in the mystery and ritual of absinthe drinking.
Drinks
Only two silent monks know all 130 plants that go into this herbal liqueur.
Gastro
The Mesoamerican mortar and pestle has been made, and used, the same way for thousands of years.
Drinks
For a meaty essence, producers dangle raw chicken breast over their stills.
Prepared Foods
Grilled or braised, these brains make a tasty taco.
Drinks
A wine so luxuriously sweet, it's consumed by the spoonful.
Drinks
A bitter liqueur that traces the history of a Hungarian-Jewish family.
Sweets
Like the famed composer himself, this Mozart-homage bonbon originated in Salzburg, Austria.