This palm fruit has a surprisingly meaty flavor.

This small-batch spirit is distilled from cactus fruit.

Finnish immigrants brought these crunchy, cinnamon-coated slices to Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Sweet sauce tops off buttermilk biscuits in the Appalachian and Ozark mountains.

This candy rarely ventures beyond Canada's borders.

We have the Ottoman sultans to thank for this creamy Turkish dessert made of chicken breast.

This crunchy, sweet, and tart noodle sorbet is one of the world's oldest frozen desserts.

Armenians were making these sweet sheets of dried fruit centuries before the Fruit Roll-Up.

Somewhere between butter and cream cheese, kaymak adds a fatty, creamy richness to everything.

Outside chapels carved from cliffs and caves, elderly women sell sweet, beautiful breads rooted in Armenia’s Christian traditions.

Not even Harry Potter could resist this whimsical British dessert.

Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.

These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.

The caffeinated wine is made by British monks and loved by Scottish criminals.

A double-ended British pastry that's both main course and dessert.

This dessert is roasted over a fire and looks like a tree.

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

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

To circumvent a meat ban, Italian immigrants hid their soppressata in balls of cheese.

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

This Danish rice pudding appeases wicked elves.

This Galician punch is set aflame to ward off evil spirits.

This mushroom tastes just like chicken.

This French wedding cake is a caramel-wrapped tower of pastry balls.