Foods Tony Dunnell Has Tried

The town of Lambayeque, Peru, specializes in a seven-layered sweet named for Hollywood's towering ape.

An unassuming oil drum houses a three-tiered oven.

A sacred alcoholic drink made from chewed and fermented yuca.

Peru's purple drink made from purple corn.

Peru’s leaf-wrapped rice ball might be named after John the Baptist’s decapitated head.

This widely varying dish may come with half a face, a lone floating jaw, or a chewy tongue.

Lima chefs love to experiment with this large Amazon river dweller.

This 400-pound fish has fed Amazon tribes for millennia.

Not even Harry Potter could resist this whimsical British dessert.

These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.

The South American bean that looks like cotton candy and tastes like ice cream.

This "Fluid of Beef" fed an army and makes a hearty tea.

The Colombian government declared war on this once-ubiquitous drink.

A key step in the Andean technique of freeze-drying potatoes is stomping on them.

The guinea pig is both food and pet in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador.

Palm weevil larvae make succulent street snacks in the Amazon.