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

A casserole of cheesy, corn flake–topped tubers offers comfort to Mormons in mourning.

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

In Southern New Mexico, chiles add a kick to everything, including vino.

By the 21st century, one lone woman held the recipe for what might have been da Vinci’s cheese of choice.

Leftover coffee plus gelatin equals this vintage dessert.

Portugal's volcanic archipelago is home to addictively sweet and chewy muffins.

Duck blood makes this Polish soup extra rich.

No traditional East Ender meal is complete without pie, mashed potatoes, and gelatinous river creatures.

Elaborate bread sculptures grace these edible annual altars in Sicily and Sicilian communities abroad.

A sweet and sticky accident from Derbyshire, England.

A hangover cure that spans classes and centuries.

The seasonal treat that descends from the sky in swarms.

Sandwiches stuffed with wine-and-cinnamon-spiced sausage have been a specialty of Michigan's Upper Peninsula since 1936.

This tangy fruit flavors everything from ice cream to cocktails.

This palm fruit has a surprisingly meaty flavor.

A New Year's Eve tradition of scarfing down 12 grapes for good luck.

This alcoholic drink has medicinal properties (and sometimes contains turtle penis).