This French Creole Christmas Eve tradition takes midnight munchies to a whole new level.

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

This Danish rice pudding appeases wicked elves.

Bitter, sweet, and salty collide in this cool Taiwanese treat.

This summery parfait has mingled with British royals and literary elites.

For some students at the University of Oxford, the end of the year means getting covered with eggs, shaving cream, and champagne.

At Danish birthday parties, you can have your cake and decapitate it, too.

The way to celebrate unmarried Danes’ 25th and 30th birthdays is to attack them with spices.

Goggles are a good idea at this wine-slinging battle.

The ancient game of wine-flicking is as difficult as it is messy.

Monks make this stunning, ephemeral art from yak butter and mineral pigments.

The lychee-looking fruit appears in everything from jam and liqueur to the Aeneid and Madrid's flag.

This ricotta and marzipan pastry honors the Sicilian saint's most noteworthy body part.