Foods YeleFit Has Tried

These old-school metal tea-glass holders are a fixture on Russian trains.

These ornately decorated spice cookies developed alongside a Russian city's gun industry.

You can find authentic versions of this sour Slavic brew at street stalls and monasteries.

This traditional dessert commemorates the country's sweet taste of victory over the French emperor in 1812.

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

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

There's a legend that this Latvian herbal liqueur saved an ailing Catherine the Great.

This regional Russian delicacy once called itself Parisian.