On the riverbanks of Oaxaca, cooks make “stone soup” with hot rocks and fresh fish.

On one small island, this golden liquid is both a local delicacy and traditional medicine.

In this tangy treat, no part of the citrus is left behind.

This dark, rare fruit lasts a very long time.

A Finnish city specializes in sausages housed in sugar-dusted doughnuts.

Ground nuts provide the base for this warm, caffeine-free drink.

Layers of flavored tea combine to create a drinkable rainbow.

This slightly sweet dessert is a staple in some Black American Muslim communities.

The briny, refreshing ice cream acts as a cooling chaser to spicy meals.

This Route 66 institution goes the extra mile for soda-based indulgence.

These eerily bone-like candies come with bumpy “joints” of nuts and chocolate “marrow” inside.

After a hurricane struck New England in 1938, one chef used windfall apples to make a sweet breakfast-topper.

This pepper's sweet taste and long, slow burn is found in a single town.

This smoky, spicy dish comes straight out of Cajun country.

The biggest edible mushroom in the world is also delicious.

Welcome fall in Germany with this fizzy, refreshing young wine and a slice of savory onion tart.

This brandy-spiked recipe reveals the reclusive poet was actually a well-known baker.

Frozen custard gets topped with green chile sauce and salty pecans to make this Las Cruces specialty.

Soft young cones make a sweet jam believed to have health benefits in Russia and Georgia.

Elaborate bread sculptures grace these edible annual altars in Sicily and Sicilian communities abroad.

There's a legend that this Latvian herbal liqueur saved an ailing Catherine the Great.

This shape-shifting bread has kept its traditional name, but continued to reinvent itself with changing times.

This pineapple soft serve has a cult following at Disney theme parks.

In an Ethiopian forest, a dying breed of beekeepers scales dangerously tall trees to harvest nectar from handmade hives.