The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.

This Canadian favorite is relatively unknown elsewhere.

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

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

Grown in the volcanic soil around Mt. Vesuvius, these tomatoes are one of only a couple varieties used in authentic Neapolitan pizza.

This Midwestern dessert salad draws on both Scandinavian immigrant and local Ojibwe influences.

Don’t worry: This sweet, creamy Mormon potluck staple isn’t actually made of frogs.

This salad named after a scandal has been traced back to Kraft and Helen Keller.

The same grass that feeds massive European bison adds notes of vanilla and lavender to this unique Polish vodka.

Grown only on the volcanic soil of Hawaiʻi’s Big Island, this coffee is known for its subtle, rich flavor and hordes of unscrupulous imitators.

A bland but storied soup is always on the menu in the U.S. Senate.

This New Year's luck-bringer has a controversial contemporary taste.

Spiced meat sauce meets spaghetti, shredded cheese, and beans in a Midwest cult favorite.

You might not even see the meat beneath this pile of potato chips, sauce, and quail eggs.

A fruit so foul, shamans use it to scare evil spirits.

This sweet, caramelized dessert comes from curdled milk.

In small towns across the state, an Easter tradition becomes a competitive sport.

This Polish Easter tradition artfully assembles symbolic foods, from bread to lamb-shaped butter.

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

The marshmallow-based candy is named for a delicacy just out of the ancient Greeks' reach.

Where maple sap flows, all one needs to make taffy is snow.

This recently revived New York heirloom doesn't contain cheese, but it does make an iconic pumpkin pie.

The oldest fruit native to North America is probably the least known.

This butterscotch-flavored fruit has a way with desserts.