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

This pink cake celebrates a long-ago football victory.

Historians debate whether this dish actually originated with Italian sex workers.

Make like Jane Austen and sip from the fountain in this famed Pump Room.

This layered pastry from Italy's Amalfi Coast may have origins in a 17th-century convent.

A small town is home to a beloved candy invented by one of Sweden's first female entrepreneurs.

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

The candy is huge with Norwegian hikers and skiers.

This “brown cheese” tastes like caramel.

For special occasions, Norwegians stack 18 rings of cake into a tower.

Once steamed in shirt sleeves and pant legs, this sweet roll took on the nickname “dead man's leg.”

These almond cakes resembling gold ingots were sold near the Paris stock exchange.

This Canadian favorite is relatively unknown elsewhere.

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

In the 19th century, tin miners ate these handheld pies and left their crusts to appease mischievous, mine-dwelling spirits.

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

Like the famed composer himself, this Mozart-homage bonbon originated in Salzburg, Austria.

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

These sweet hands come with stories of triumph and brutality.

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

The Belgian candy that sparked an epic vendor battle.

Atop every serving of Dutch “war fries,” a pile of spicy, savory condiments do battle.

Belgium's stew of beef and abbey-style ale is essentially bourguignon for beer lovers.

In this Dutch holiday tradition, Sinterklaas leaves good children sweet pieces of the alphabet inside their shoes.