Prepared Foods
Okonomiyaki
A wartime rice scarcity made this versatile pancake a Japanese staple.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Prepared Foods
A wartime rice scarcity made this versatile pancake a Japanese staple.
Ingredients & Condiments
Somewhere between butter and cream cheese, kaymak adds a fatty, creamy richness to everything.
Sweets
Pulling apart this dish creates silk-like threads of melted sugar.
Prepared Foods
Denmark's open-faced sandwiches are equal parts decadent and decorative.
Prepared Foods
Once a delicacy limited to the wealthy, smoked horse meat sausage is now a centerpiece at many Kazakh feasts.
Prepared Foods
This spicy street food has a reputation for making people cry.
Gastro
Monks make this stunning, ephemeral art from yak butter and mineral pigments.
Prepared Foods
Historians debate whether this dish actually originated with Italian sex workers.
Drinks
Bitter, sweet, and salty collide in this cool Taiwanese treat.
Sweets
These Japanese sweets demonstrate the ephemeral beauty of the seasons.
Sweets
These almond cakes resembling gold ingots were sold near the Paris stock exchange.
Sweets
Some Bretons claim that their signature treat is the fattiest pastry in the world.
Prepared Foods
Melaka's Kristang community makes a dish so spicy, it's known as “devil's curry.”
Sweets
A sweet and sticky accident from Derbyshire, England.
Prepared Foods
In the 19th century, tin miners ate these handheld pies and left their crusts to appease mischievous, mine-dwelling spirits.
Prepared Foods
On April 14, lonely South Korean singles are encouraged to drown their sorrows in black noodles.
Prepared Foods
The higher you toss this fish salad, the luckier your year will be.
Drinks
A pharmaceutical company developed this beverage as drinkable IV solution.
Prepared Foods
Icelanders make a very, very good dog.
Sweets
These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.
Ingredients & Condiments
This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.
Gastro
These embellished containers didn’t just sit pretty on the table; they determined social standing.
Sweets
The Belgian candy that sparked an epic vendor battle.
Sweets
After rotating over hot coals, the Transylvanian treat unravels in a sweet spiral.