Foods Sandra Lang Has Tried

In Czechia, a foamy beer is a sweet and creamy treat.

The Ukrainian wedding bread is so beautiful, it's displayed near the altar.

Bread so thin, you can read music through the dough.

These savory pastries come from Lithuania's Karaim minority.

The marshmallow-based candy is named for a delicacy just out of the ancient Greeks' reach.

Welcome fall in Germany with this fizzy, refreshing young wine and a slice of savory onion tart.

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

Local lore claims that German bakers made these pastries as an act of quiet rebellion during French occupation.

These pull-apart rolls were once baked with lottery tickets in the center.

This Canadian favorite is relatively unknown elsewhere.

These Polish pre-Lent doughnuts have taken on a life (and an eating contest) of their own in the United States.

The sweet-and-sour soda almost disappeared with the collapse of communist rule in then-Czechoslovakia.

Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.

It's so much more than just mayonnaise and ketchup.

This condiment proves that what the world considers delicious is (nearly) universal.

The bread and butter of Dutch cuisine includes these jumbo sprinkles.

This alcoholic drink has medicinal properties (and sometimes contains turtle penis).

The stinky cheese comes with onions and bathroom humor.

Most people have never tasted the real thing.

This “brown cheese” tastes like caramel.

These French candies originally came in seashells.

After rotating over hot coals, the Transylvanian treat unravels in a sweet spiral.

In Poland's highlands, a small group makes a beautiful, smoky sheep's milk cheese.

The ultimate in nutty brews.