The Laotian street food is mildly sweet and surprisingly juicy.

Layers of flavored tea combine to create a drinkable rainbow.

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

This Southeast Asian leaf can wake you up, knock you out, and subdue heroin withdrawal.

There's an elephant in the room when it comes to the world's most expensive brew.

With a squeeze of lemon, this plant can turn any drink into a color-changing mood ring.

Made from dozens of regional flowers and herbs, this tea reflects the unique flora of Loja, Ecuador.

When soaked and blended with water, the tigernut creates a nutritious nondairy beverage.

This Ethiopian dish of raw, sometimes spiced, meat comes with a specialized cutting ritual.

A melt-in-your-mouth mixture of raw beef, butter, and spices.

In an Ethiopian forest, a dying breed of beekeepers scales dangerously tall trees to harvest nectar from handmade hives.

The birthplace of coffee celebrates community with a sensory feast.

Ethiopian honey wine is sweet, funky, and perfect with injera.

The psychedelic root used in a sacred Bwiti ritual may also treat heroin withdrawal.

Vendors fill these crispy pancakes with as many meats, sweets, or vegetables as their imaginations allow.

Drinking fresh blood is both sacred and ordinary for the Maasai people.

Making this sausage of meat, tripe, and blood is its own festive occasion in Kenya.

The basement of a 19th-century government building provides peak conditions for delicious fungi.

A fruit so foul, shamans use it to scare evil spirits.

Ever wanted to slide down a slippery tarp while wearing watermelons?

This famous Italian honey is now produced only on an Australian island.

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

A rainbow of flavor that harks back to childhood.

It looks like an exploding planet and tastes like sugarcane.