This hand-pulled cotton candy treat from Iran looks like threads of unspun silk.

This meat dish slow-cooks in the embers that heat Moroccan bathhouses.

A 2,500-year-old Persian dessert evolved into this Indian summertime favorite.

Don’t be fooled by the name of this Bengali relish.

On April 14, lonely South Korean singles are encouraged to drown their sorrows in black noodles.

This dark, sweet refresher was born at a now-defunct amusement park on the shores of Lake Erie.

This two-ingredient Malabari dessert turns separated eggs into a striking delicacy.

These Japanese sweets demonstrate the ephemeral beauty of the seasons.

These pull-apart rolls were once baked with lottery tickets in the center.

These pink cookies are destined to be dunked in champagne.

This sugar-soaked South Asian sweet isn’t your basic bread pudding.

This jewel-toned Sicilian and Maltese specialty is so sweet, it’s hard to believe it comes from a spiky cactus.

These Polish pre-Lent doughnuts have taken on a life (and an eating contest) of their own in the United States.

Neither tea nor hot chocolate, this Caribbean cocoa drink is in a league of its own.

A distillery's abandoned barrels of cinnamon liqueur led to this new Dutch tradition.

Celebrate the harvest and the return of a beloved mythical king with this 26-dish Malayali feast.

The candy is huge with Norwegian hikers and skiers.

On Tibetan New Year, deep-fried cookies take the form of auspicious symbols and festive snacks.

The sweet-and-sour soda almost disappeared with the collapse of communist rule in then-Czechoslovakia.

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

A sweet and sticky accident from Derbyshire, England.

Grandmas fashion this near-forgotten Passover treat from ginger and honey.

Say “roll eggs” super fast in Uganda and you'll receive something far tastier than a luxury watch.

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