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Mari Lwyd
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Mari Lwyd

In Wales, midwinter is the right time to look a gift horse in its gaping skull-mouth.
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Lampreia de Ovos
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Lampreia de Ovos

With this egg-based Christmas dessert, Portuguese pastelarias celebrate a bloodsucking fish.
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Korovai
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Korovai

The Ukrainian wedding bread is so beautiful, it's displayed near the altar.
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Canned Bread
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Canned Bread

A New England tradition of steaming bread in coffee tins gave rise to this niche snack.
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Enset
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Enset

Some bread goes in the oven for an hour; some goes underground for two years.
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Carta di Musica
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Carta di Musica

Bread so thin, you can read music through the dough.
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Piki Bread
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Piki Bread

This ultra-thin blue corn delicacy is traditionally eaten at Hopi weddings.
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Hverabrauð
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Hverabrauð

Iceland's thick, chewy "hot spring bread" is just like regular rye bread, with one big difference.
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Fujisan Bread
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Fujisan Bread

Worlds collide in this braided bread that tastes like brioche and is meant to look like Mount Fuji.
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Pettuleipä
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Pettuleipä

Scandinavia has a long history of stretching flour supplies with tree bark.
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T’anta Wawa
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T’anta Wawa

On All Souls' Day, South Americans celebrate life and death with "baby bread."
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Borsok
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Borsok

Kyrgyzstan’s fried dough marks special occasions and "feeds" the dead.
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Salt-Rising Bread
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Salt-Rising Bread

Bacteria that cause gangrene are the magic ingredient in this cheese-scented loaf.
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Hagelslag
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Hagelslag

The bread and butter of Dutch cuisine includes these jumbo sprinkles.
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Bolo Lêvedo
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Bolo Lêvedo

Portugal's volcanic archipelago is home to addictively sweet and chewy muffins.
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Mish
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Mish

This sharp and salty Egyptian cheese ferments for months in a bath of milk and spices.
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Crowdie
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Crowdie

This ancient, spreadable cheese is disappearing from Scottish cuisine.
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Nakládaný Hermelín
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Nakládaný Hermelín

The pungent pickled cheese is a popular Czech bar snack.
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Timanoix
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Timanoix

Monks and nuns elevate this soft cheese with a wash of walnut liqueur.
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Cougar Gold Cheese
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Cougar Gold Cheese

This canned cheddar is made using a secret 70-year-old bacteria culture.
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Divle Obruk
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Divle Obruk

The rare, cave-aged Turkish cheese is one of the last vestiges of a dying cheese-making tradition.
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Tête de Moine
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Tête de Moine

"Monk's Head" cheese requires a special shaver.
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Pule
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Pule

The world's most expensive cheese is made from Balkan donkey milk.
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Würchwitzer Mite Cheese
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Würchwitzer Mite Cheese

You'll love it almost as much as the critters clinging to the rind.
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