If you slipped back through time to taste a dish from the Roman Empire, you'd likely be sampling some fermented fish sauce. Surviving Roman recipes add this to anything from barley porridge to a sweet ...

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Surströmming, a fermented herring considered to be a famous delicacy in Sweden, is also known as one of the most pungent foods in the world. More than a decade ago, NPR's Ari Shapiro attempted to eat ...