Drinks
Amarula Cream Liqueur
A sweet and nutty liqueur made with the fruit of the "elephant tree."
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Drinks
A sweet and nutty liqueur made with the fruit of the "elephant tree."
Sweets
This sugar-soaked South Asian sweet isn’t your basic bread pudding.
Gastro
This French Creole Christmas Eve tradition takes midnight munchies to a whole new level.
Sweets
These massive, booze-filled cakes once made voting sweet.
Sweets
This Christmas bread is formed in the shape of the baby Jesus.
Sweets
Beneath its "cover-up" of icing, this dessert hides a bunch of nuts.
Ingredients & Condiments
Once a year, communities on the tiny island gather to preserve the art of making licorice-flavored apple butter.
Prepared Foods
This smoky, spicy dish comes straight out of Cajun country.
Meats & Animal Products
Lauded by poets, a Scottish town's hot-smoked haddock may date back to the Vikings.
Meats & Animal Products
Around British Columbia's Osoyoos Lake, community efforts have revived the population of a fluorescent fish.
Prepared Foods
In the 19th century, tin miners ate these handheld pies and left their crusts to appease mischievous, mine-dwelling spirits.
Ingredients & Condiments
This tangy East Coast spread is becoming increasingly hard to find.
Sweets
A motel restaurant in a tiny Utah town bakes this sweet and sour treat.
Prepared Foods
Chefs carefully detoxify this East Coast pufferfish to create sweet, fried “chicken wings of the sea.”
Gastro
In the American South, some believe it deters rain on one's wedding day.
Prepared Foods
Sandwiches stuffed with wine-and-cinnamon-spiced sausage have been a specialty of Michigan's Upper Peninsula since 1936.
Prepared Foods
You can enjoy this Sicilian spleen sandwich “single” or “married.”
Prepared Foods
Cow eyes make a juicy and gelatinous taco filling.
Prepared Foods
Deep-fried pork intestines make a crispy, salty snack on the streets of Cebu City.
Ingredients & Condiments
This wildflower releases a cocoa fragrance each morning.
Prepared Foods
This savory-sweet pairing is a classic school lunch.
Sweets
At the only Trappist monastery in the Philippines, monks turn local fruit into sinfully delicious goodies.
Gastro
These dairy-based sculptures have been state fair traditions for more than a century.
Fruits & Vegetables
The oldest fruit native to North America is probably the least known.