Preparing a traditional Māori feast requires a rock pit heated by fire or hot springs.

Peru's strikingly beautiful mashed potato casserole.

Once made by monks, this candy spends 15 days rolling in sugar syrup to get its pearly-white shell.

A town harvest festival with a giant miso soup bowl.

This dessert pays tribute to the snow-covered mountains surrounding Salzburg.

This sweet symbolic figurine is a Sicilian holiday tradition.

This once-common spice is now almost completely unknown outside India.

The rich, potato-filled dish nourished Catholics on meatless Fridays.

This Canary Islands' specialty upgrades coffee with layers of condensed milk and liqueur.

These sweet and savory Japanese rolled eggs are sold in 6-packs.

At some New Orleans weddings, bridesmaids predict their futures with these hidden charms.

Orchardists use sticky stencils and the power of the sun to turn apples into art.

This “hodgepodge” of affordable ingredients fueled local laborers during the Industrial Revolution.

This Swedish holiday soda outsells Coca-Cola during the Christmas season.

The treasures are colorful fruits and nuts.

The legend of these rum-and-molasses cookies leads to a New England tavern owned by a Black Revolutionary War veteran.

This ancient, spreadable cheese is disappearing from Scottish cuisine.

Utah's favorite nonalcoholic beer got its start more than a century ago as a German brew.

This is one seriously polarizing pie.

Satisfy your midnight munchies with this Franken-feast out of St. Louis, Missouri.

The story of South Carolina's sweet-hot soda begins with a chance discovery during the Revolutionary War.

A sailor's stew that's come to define Liverpudlians.

Chocolate-covered cheese curds make sweet Estonian energy bars.

Slovakian winters call for a honey-and-bacon hot brandy cocktail.