Endangered Eats

This vintage dessert of bread, cheese, and syrup nearly disappeared from Peru.

This dessert island is known for its refined layer cakes.

South Korea's oldest alcoholic beverage is making a comeback.

This 400-pound fish has fed Amazon tribes for millennia.

These expensive and dangerous-to-harvest barnacles were once confused for goose eggs.

Mexican and American Indians have a long history with this powerful cactus.

Bees get a lift from helicopters in order to produce this spicy honey.

A cruel cooking method turns this tiny songbird into a rare delicacy.

A flour made from orchid roots makes for a popular Turkish drink.

This is one expensive load of crap.

In the Philippines, the worm is your oyster.

The eggs of "the farty ant" have earned a reputation as the caviar of the desert.

The Colombian government declared war on this once-ubiquitous drink.