Meats & Animal Products
Mortadella
Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.
Foods I've tried
Foods this traveler has tried.
Meats & Animal Products
Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.
Meats & Animal Products
These woolly pigs produce the “Kobe beef of pork.”
Prepared Foods
Historians debate whether this dish actually originated with Italian sex workers.
Fruits & Vegetables
The lychee-looking fruit appears in everything from jam and liqueur to the Aeneid and Madrid's flag.
Prepared Foods
The casserole with a person's name.
Sweets
Portuguese traders' love of marzipan paved the way for Thailand's vibrant mung bean candy.
Drinks
The vineyards of Mount Vesuvius still produce the same wines enjoyed by the ancient Romans.
Drinks
To taste the oldest wine still in production, head to Cyprus.
Drinks
When the clock strikes midnight on the third Thursday of November, fans gather to celebrate the release of this fresh, fruity wine.
Sweets
The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.
Prepared Foods
Denmark's open-faced sandwiches are equal parts decadent and decorative.
Ingredients & Condiments
In ancient Rome, this fermented fish sauce sparked a booming industry.
Ingredients & Condiments
You can roast your potatoes in this rendered fat, or just spread it on bread and eat it cold.
Sweets
Once steamed in shirt sleeves and pant legs, this sweet roll took on the nickname “dead man's leg.”
Sweets
These almond cakes resembling gold ingots were sold near the Paris stock exchange.
Sweets
These dark fried milk balls are flecked with gold and dipped in scented syrup.
Ingredients & Condiments
Once a treatment for heat stroke, the herbal gel now flavors desserts.
Prepared Foods
A wartime rice scarcity made this versatile pancake a Japanese staple.
Drinks
Devoted fans pay thousands for bricks of this fermented tea.
Drinks
Grown only on the volcanic soil of Hawaiʻi’s Big Island, this coffee is known for its subtle, rich flavor and hordes of unscrupulous imitators.
Sweets
Elusive in its country of origin, this multilayer cake has found a home in Manitoba's “New Iceland” region.
Sweets
Some Bretons claim that their signature treat is the fattiest pastry in the world.
Drinks
Pressed from frozen grapes, this prized wine was a sweet accident.
Prepared Foods
The higher you toss this fish salad, the luckier your year will be.