licorice
Scandinavia's Salty Licorice Is Disgusting, and I Can't Get Enough of It
“I grew up with it and do think it’s an acquired taste. But why we eat it, I have no clue."
The Dutch Love of Salty Licorice Will Never Die
Drop, as it’s called in Dutch, is black licorice flavored with ammonium chloride, an ingredient that’s often found in cough syrup. You can say it’s an acquired taste.
Salty Licorice Is Beloved by Swedes and Reviled by Everyone Else
One of the most popular candies in Sweden is salmiak, licorice flavored with ammonium chloride. It's salty and it might make you shit yourself, but it's still delicious.
This Old Man Is Making the Best Illegal Pastis in France
In Provence, one former horse smith is making some of the most delicious and illegal pastis in France, and it's not exactly the easiest process to pull off.
Our Only Hope for Preventing Nuclear War Lies in String Cheese and Twizzlers
The US team of leaders doing nuclear negotiations with Iran is plowing through tens of pounds of cheap licorice, marshmallow squares, crappy trail mix, and cheese sticks.
Excessive Candy Consumption Is Giving Children Burns and Seizures
Turns out your mom was right: too much candy is bad for you. But she didn't say that licorice and sour suckers would cause bloody tongue blisters and seizures.
Stagger Lee Recipe
I associate Nick Cave with the color black, so black treacle rum is perfect in this murky, dark cocktail.
Bone Marrow Cocktail Recipe
We combined gelatin with whisky, licorice, and porcini mushrooms, and put it in the fridge to gellify so that it has a very marrow-like consistency.
Iceland, I Love You—But Your Grocery Stores Are Weird
I came to Iceland expecting animals heads, and I found animals heads. But is that prune-flavored milk I see sitting on the shelf? And why is all of the candy overwhelmingly infused with licorice? Well, at least your skyr is delicious.
I Ate Myself Horny at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark
At Denmark's most famous music festival, I sat down to a four-course aphrodisiac dinner that promised to stir my animal urges with crispy balls of blood pudding, “hay milk” cheese, and a hell of a lot of booze.
Meet the Two Geniuses Who Lived on Cheezies and Licorice for One Week
I was perusing the ol' Facebook when I saw that my friend Rajiv was engaged in an experiment where he could only eat Hawkins Cheezies (the Canadian equivalent of Cheetos) for one business week, with just water and one vitamin pill per day to keep from...