A town harvest festival with a giant miso soup bowl.

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

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

This beloved Russian dessert is the brainchild of Soviet-era housewives with meat grinders.

This ruby, tannic style is little-known outside its native Bulgaria.

In Peru, layers of potatoes, meat, and sweets are steamed in a pit filled with volcanic rocks.

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

This heavenly custard was born from the leftovers of sherry winemaking.

Benedictine monks in Oregon brew and serve this dark, heady beer.

The Netherlands' most famous treat now comes in a bottle.

Now largely forgotten, the pairing was once as popular as PB&J.

Growing this sweet, tropical fruit sometimes requires careful hand-pollination with a paint brush.

Belizeans use this bulbous fruit to kill mosquito-borne parasites.

Themed buffets, parades, performances, and competitions dominate this Philippines island every May.

The fragrant, intricately spiced street food is a medina specialty.

These salty potatoes were originally boiled in seawater.

For some students at the University of Oxford, the end of the year means getting covered with eggs, shaving cream, and champagne.

One southern Indiana town cooks up this unique, time-honored dessert every September.

It's nicknamed “yumberry” for a reason.

These live fish are said to "dance" down diners' throats.

This powder proved essential to Arctic exploration, war, and the ice cream parlor.

This star-shaped fruit has been beloved for centuries.

These chocolate-covered peanuts got M&M's banned in Sweden.

This tangy fruit flavors everything from ice cream to cocktails.