In Venezuela, traditional Christmas bread marries ham, raisins, and olives.

This Danish rice pudding appeases wicked elves.

Finish all your Latvian peas for good luck in the New Year.

This Christmas bread is formed in the shape of the baby Jesus.

To do Christmas right, Italians turn to heavenly chestnuts.

Chocolate-covered cheese curds make sweet Estonian energy bars.

Scandinavia has a long history of stretching flour supplies with tree bark.

A motel restaurant in a tiny Utah town bakes this sweet and sour treat.

A few Baltimore bakeries still serve this cheesecake named after 19th-century cottage cheese.

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

The sweet, spiraled pastries were once a staple on cold days in the American South.

This decadent cheese has frugal roots.

China's favorite urinating “tea pet” is actually a thermometer.

On the streets of Cebu City, strangers share bubbling woks of pork brain gravy.

The St. Louis creation earned the "best use of the worst cheese" award.

In Tibet, sweet mac and yak cheese makes a hearty dessert.

In Wales, midwinter is the right time to look a gift horse in its gaping skull-mouth.

A now-archaic Scottish breakfast paved the way for this popular dessert.

Utah's favorite nonalcoholic beer got its start more than a century ago as a German brew.

This is one seriously polarizing pie.

This ancient, spreadable cheese is disappearing from Scottish cuisine.

During Christmastime in the Philippines, purple reigns with this colorful sticky rice snack.

This Swedish holiday soda outsells Coca-Cola during the Christmas season.

The legend of these rum-and-molasses cookies leads to a New England tavern owned by a Black Revolutionary War veteran.