To release steam, Victorian bakers placed whimsical ceramics in their pastries.

After rotating over hot coals, the Transylvanian treat unravels in a sweet spiral.

The story of Britain's smelliest cheese involves monks, drunks, and endangered cows.

A fragrant, difficult-to-harvest delicacy from the Scottish moorlands.

The simple sweets welcomed Cornish fishermen after they returned with their catch.

This sweet Scottish pudding gets boiled in a bag for special occasions.

On November 5, the British celebrate a thwarted assassination attempt with bonfires and deliciously dense, sticky gingerbread.

Only one bakery still makes these hard biscuits that were once beloved by Thomas Hardy.

This ancient, spreadable cheese is disappearing from Scottish cuisine.

No Bonfire Night is complete without a cup of this warm, vinegar-flavored snack.

A very non-vegan dish inspired this vegan chocolate.

These deep-fried dough daisies outlived the Fort Erie amusement park in which they were born.

These French candies originally came in seashells.

The seductively delicious Easter cake once made an entire convent neglect its prayers.

Finns celebrate Easter with millions of real eggshells filled with almond-hazelnut nougat.

This cookie is found only in Rome's Jewish quarter.

These ornately decorated spice cookies developed alongside a Russian city's gun industry.

To eat the world's rarest pasta, you must first complete a 20-mile pilgrimage.

These lark-shaped buns herald spring.

These marvelous mussels are cooked under pine needles.

This spiraled Balkan pastry requires painstakingly rolling dough into silky sheets.

This Sicilian sheep's milk cheese is colored with saffron and studded with black peppercorns.

Bread so thin, you can read music through the dough.

This jelly is made with dandelions and tastes like honey.