Foods sophiestjacques Has Tried

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

Donn Beach wrote the recipe for his famously potent cocktail in secret code.

This traditional Southern pairing captures sweet and salty in a single bottle.

Bitter, sweet, and salty collide in this cool Taiwanese treat.

Mexico's “mouse melon” is actually a tiny cucumber.

Slice one open for some citrus caviar.

When life gives you burnt rice, make tea.

In Senegal, black coffee meets sugar ’n’ spice in one heady brew.

This chocolate-coated confection's crisp, bubbly structure is well-suited to the even crisper Buffalo air.

Some bread goes in the oven for an hour; some goes underground for two years.

Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.

Neither tea nor hot chocolate, this Caribbean cocoa drink is in a league of its own.

This chewable Indian digestive soothes stomachs, freshens breath, and might give you cancer.

This triple-distilled cashew fruit liquor is a source of Goan pride.

These inky cloves have aged like a fine wine.

Monks make this stunning, ephemeral art from yak butter and mineral pigments.

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

A rainbow of flavor that harks back to childhood.

The tool, found in Australian military ration packs, is considered handy by some and awful by others.

When Ukrainian immigrants embraced a local crop, a sweet prairie perogy was born.

Locals joke that you should be able to “float a horseshoe” on the thick brew.

The aroma of this mulled wine has been compared to “a warmed-up bowl of Froot Loops.”

Pressed from frozen grapes, this prized wine was a sweet accident.

Beneath its serpent-like skin lies pineapple-flavored flesh.