Foodie Bucket List

Flaky honey-and-nut pastry from the Levant.

Indulge in the earthy luxury of truffles, a prized culinary delicacy. Sample shaved white truffles from Alba, Italy, known for their intense aroma, or savor black Périgord truffles from France, often used in risottos and pastas. Whether enjoyed in a fine-dining restaurant or sourced fresh from a market, this dish offers a unique gastronomic experience that captures the essence of gourmet cuisine.

Dine at the Michelin-starred restaurant Chèvre d'or in Eze, France, offering gourmet cuisine with panoramic views of the French Riviera.

Adopt a plant-based diet that excludes all animal products including meat, dairy, eggs, and honey

Eat only rescued or leftover food for 7 days to reduce food waste and promote sustainability.

Adopt a vegetarian diet, eliminating all meat and fish while focusing on plant-based foods

Try banana wine, a unique alcoholic beverage made from fermented bananas.

Experience a meal at Noma, a world-renowned restaurant in Copenhagen known for its innovative Nordic cuisine and multiple Michelin stars

Terraced vineyards along the Moselle.

Famed Transnistrian brandy cellars.

The world's largest wine cellar.

Vast underground wine "streets".

Cape Dutch estates in a ring of mountains, tasting Pinotage and Chenin an hour from Cape Town.

Taipei’s biggest night market — stinky tofu, giant fried chicken, bubble tea.

Eat anticuchos at dusk — smoky beef-heart skewers from a street grill, Afro-Peruvian soul food

Join Peru's national ritual: charcoal-spit pollo a la brasa, fries, and the great ají sauce debate

Eat causa — chilled towers of lime-and-chilli mashed potato, proof Peru does things with potatoes nobody else imagined

Eat lomo saltado, the wok-flamed beef stir-fry where Canton met the Andes — fries in the dish, rice on the side

Drink chicha morada, the violet corn nectar Peruvians pour with everything — and meet its wild fermented ancestor

Eat picarones hot from the street fryer — squash-and-sweet-potato rings drowned in raw-cane syrup

Drink an Inca Kola — the bubblegum-gold soda that beat Coca-Cola on its own turf

Eat ají de gallina — shredded chicken drowned in velvet yellow-chilli cream, Lima comfort food since colonial days

Eat ceviche where it was invented — raw fish cured in minutes by lime, chilli and leche de tigre

Drink unfiltered Pilsner Urquell straight from the oak barrel in the cellars where pale lager was invented in 1842.

Sip a pisco sour — grape brandy, lime, bitters and egg-white foam — in the country that swears it invented it

The national dish — mud crab in a sweet-spicy tomato-chilli gravy, mopped up with fried buns.

Drink amber wine fermented in buried clay vessels, the 8,000-year-old Georgian way.

Shatter the crisp clam-shell layers of Naples’ ricotta-and-semolina breakfast pastry

Sip the rich, dried-grape red of the Veneto hills north of Verona

Try true Ligurian basil pesto, pounded in a mortar, over trofie or trenette pasta