Goggles are a good idea at this wine-slinging battle.

Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.

The seductively delicious Easter cake once made an entire convent neglect its prayers.

Most people have never tasted the real thing.

Armenians were making these sweet sheets of dried fruit centuries before the Fruit Roll-Up.

Outside chapels carved from cliffs and caves, elderly women sell sweet, beautiful breads rooted in Armenia’s Christian traditions.

Tarragon provides the herbal kick to this neon-green Georgian soda.

These gigantic clay pots are the secret to Georgia's unusual wine.

Soft young cones make a sweet jam believed to have health benefits in Russia and Georgia.

These delicious strands of juice-coated nuts look like colorful candlesticks.

Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.

This ruby, tannic style is little-known outside its native Bulgaria.

The fiery fruit brandy of the Balkans.

This hand-pulled cotton candy treat from Iran looks like threads of unspun silk.

The prosperous Southern California date industry produces delicious milkshakes.