Ingredients & Condiments
Black Garlic
These inky cloves have aged like a fine wine.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Ingredients & Condiments
These inky cloves have aged like a fine wine.
Drinks
Locals joke that you should be able to “float a horseshoe” on the thick brew.
Drinks
Ethiopian honey wine is sweet, funky, and perfect with injera.
Prepared Foods
A melt-in-your-mouth mixture of raw beef, butter, and spices.
Gastro
The Mesoamerican mortar and pestle has been made, and used, the same way for thousands of years.
Prepared Foods
Spread this fat-poached meat on a crusty French loaf.
Ingredients & Condiments
This savory seafood condiment is named after the finest cognacs.
Fruits & Vegetables
Slice one open for some citrus caviar.
Meats & Animal Products
This raw meat meze from Lebanon is as fresh as it gets.
Prepared Foods
This sweet, cheese-filled Norwegian flatbread keeps Nordlanders nourished during the long winter.
Meats & Animal Products
This “brown cheese” tastes like caramel.
Prepared Foods
Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.
Meats & Animal Products
Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.
Drinks
Only two silent monks know all 130 plants that go into this herbal liqueur.
Meats & Animal Products
These woolly pigs produce the “Kobe beef of pork.”
Ingredients & Condiments
The fiery Calabrian meat spread also goes by "red Nutella" and "poor man's Viagra."
Meats & Animal Products
No traditional East Ender meal is complete without pie, mashed potatoes, and gelatinous river creatures.
Drinks
The fiery fruit brandy of the Balkans.
Ingredients & Condiments
You can roast your potatoes in this rendered fat, or just spread it on bread and eat it cold.
Gastro
This flat, silver spoon holds an exalted place in the mystery and ritual of absinthe drinking.
Drinks
The same grass that feeds massive European bison adds notes of vanilla and lavender to this unique Polish vodka.
Drinks
Only a few breweries still make smoky beer in this classic German style.
Prepared Foods
The delicacy makes a rich, gamey appetizer in northern Sweden.
Gastro
For some students at the University of Oxford, the end of the year means getting covered with eggs, shaving cream, and champagne.