Chocolate-covered cheese curds make sweet Estonian energy bars.

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

These saffron buns are eaten on Lucia Day in Sweden.

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

Saffron, rose water, and pistachios combine in a fragrant, sweet-savory treat.

This ancient, spreadable cheese is disappearing from Scottish cuisine.

Once an important Silk Road stop, a fortified Uzbek city specializes in bright green noodles.

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

This traditional dessert commemorates the country's sweet taste of victory over the French emperor in 1812.

During Carnival, Neapolitans fill up on these fluffy potato doughnuts.

The autumn event re-creates meals shared by French settlers and Native Americans at an 18th-century fort.

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.

At a subterranean Edinburgh bar, drinkers can assemble their cocktails via kitschy claw machine.

The dainty, cream-filled specialty is on the brink of extinction.

Japan's traditional temple cuisine features meals that are nutritionally and visually balanced.

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

Finnish immigrants brought these crunchy, cinnamon-coated slices to Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

This small-batch spirit is distilled from cactus fruit.

Preparing a traditional Māori feast requires a rock pit heated by fire or hot springs.

A town harvest festival with a giant miso soup bowl.

This sweet symbolic figurine is a Sicilian holiday tradition.

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

Cooks in the Southern United States still whip up this spicy, seductively sweet condiment from the 1950s.