Prepared Foods
Chitlins
These entrails identified safe venues for Black musicians during the Jim Crow era.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Prepared Foods
These entrails identified safe venues for Black musicians during the Jim Crow era.
Sweets
For special occasions, Norwegians stack 18 rings of cake into a tower.
Drinks
The Japanese soda still comes in a marble-stoppered bottle from the 19th century.
Fruits & Vegetables
Smells like lavender, tastes like lemon rind, looks like a gnarled claw fresh from your nightmares.
Sweets
Many spoons are needed to demolish one of these ice cream-stuffed bread loaves.
Meats & Animal Products
This phallic, giant clam is the culinary crown jewel of the Pacific Northwest.
Drinks
Make like Jane Austen and sip from the fountain in this famed Pump Room.
Gastro
The way to celebrate unmarried Danes’ 25th and 30th birthdays is to attack them with spices.
Sweets
A jet-black, vanilla-flavored treat with hints of its marine origin.
Prepared Foods
An unusual combination of marshmallows and spice make this screamingly good burger.
Drinks
On an island’s moon-like terrain, grapevines creep out of ashen volcanic soil and create extraordinary elixirs.
Meats & Animal Products
Around British Columbia's Osoyoos Lake, community efforts have revived the population of a fluorescent fish.
Sweets
These deep-fried dough daisies outlived the Fort Erie amusement park in which they were born.
Sweets
A small town is home to a beloved candy invented by one of Sweden's first female entrepreneurs.
Prepared Foods
Meet Sweden's savory “sandwich cake.”
Ingredients & Condiments
Massive mushrooms spring from tall termite mounds during rainy season in Namibia.
Ingredients & Condiments
This pristine honey with a cool menthol aftertaste is produced by honeybees that feast on a Hawaiian mesquite forest.
Drinks
Grown only on the volcanic soil of Hawaiʻi’s Big Island, this coffee is known for its subtle, rich flavor and hordes of unscrupulous imitators.
Fruits & Vegetables
All but absent from supermarket shelves, this heirloom peach is a sweet secret in Southerners' backyard gardens.
Fruits & Vegetables
Grown in the volcanic soil around Mt. Vesuvius, these tomatoes are one of only a couple varieties used in authentic Neapolitan pizza.
Drinks
Soda mixed with milk creates this frosty, creamy drink.
Gastro
The birthplace of coffee celebrates community with a sensory feast.
Meats & Animal Products
Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.
Gastro
To release steam, Victorian bakers placed whimsical ceramics in their pastries.