This wintertime serenade for apple trees also involves firing rifles and drinking cider.

What better way to celebrate Shrove Tuesday than to run with a pancake-laden skillet?

Pay tribute to the poet Robert Burns with bagpipes, readings, and heaping helpings of haggis.

Belgium's stew of beef and abbey-style ale is essentially bourguignon for beer lovers.

A hearty Irish staple that can tell your fortune.

This British temperance tonic is now a Ramadan favorite.

When the clock strikes midnight on the third Thursday of November, fans gather to celebrate the release of this fresh, fruity wine.

There's much more to these offal-based meatballs than the unfortunate double meaning of their name.

On November 5, the British celebrate a thwarted assassination attempt with bonfires and deliciously dense, sticky gingerbread.

These sweet hands come with stories of triumph and brutality.

This rustic cider's name derives from an English term for fruit thievery.

These Neapolitan Christmas sweets double as decorations.

This “hodgepodge” of affordable ingredients fueled local laborers during the Industrial Revolution.

Only one bakery still makes these hard biscuits that were once beloved by Thomas Hardy.

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

Outdoor festivals in Valencia call for traditional fare made in gargantuan pans.

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

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

In Yorkshire, the holidays usher in this salty-sweet combo.

A sweet and sticky accident from Derbyshire, England.

In the 19th century, tin miners ate these handheld pies and left their crusts to appease mischievous, mine-dwelling spirits.

Once steamed in shirt sleeves and pant legs, this sweet roll took on the nickname “dead man's leg.”

The portable breakfast food might've originated with British soldiers returning from India.

Five producers in one English seaside town use historic chimneys to cold-smoke salmon and haddock overnight.