There's even a museum dedicated to this preserved meat.

This towering treat is a slice of New Orleans immigrant history.

Royalty adored the Abbot of Priscos' porcine dessert.

The city of the Taj Mahal hosts another wonder: Crystallized pumpkin candy.

The ancient confection consists of wispy sugar-strands that look like dragon whiskers.

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

A brewery consulted drinking vessels found in the ancient king’s tomb to recreate a 2,700-year-old elixir.

For a juicier burger, steam it like a vegetable.

This sweet spud is neither made with tubers, nor of Irish origin.

This German sundae masquerades as an Italian dinner.

Every March, Central New York shelves are stocked with glass bottles of green dairy.

A roadside diner in Hatch, New Mexico, makes the most of the town's fiery crop.

After thriving during Prohibition, this soda fountain staple was immortalized in a song by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Tarragon provides the herbal kick to this neon-green Georgian soda.

If there is anything that should rest on its laurels, it’s probably this laurel-infused digestif.

The Mesoamerican plant is used as a hallucinogen, medicine, and aphrodisiac.

A delicious fruit with a suggestively-shaped seed.

Brie's dark, older cousin can only be found in one region of France.

These cheese balls have fueled Central Asian nomads for centuries.

These rare, hand-pulled strands of cheese are making a comeback in southwestern Georgia.

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

The bread and butter of Dutch cuisine includes these jumbo sprinkles.

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

This velvety, vintage treat still has a fan base in Maryland.