Unusual Foods

What’s inside

• What are escamoles, sometimes called “insect caviar” in Mexico?
• What is unusual about the main ingredient in traditional bird’s nest soup?
• Kopi luwak is coffee made from beans that have passed through which animal’s digestive system?
• Century eggs are usually preserved for exactly one hundred years.
• Mopane worms are edible caterpillars commonly eaten in parts of southern Africa.
• Sannakji is a Korean dish traditionally made from freshly prepared octopus.
• Durian is globally illegal to sell or eat in every country because of its smell.
• What unusual ingredient gives casu marzu, a traditional Sardinian cheese, its distinctive character?