It's actually a crab dish from Alabama's Gulf Coast.

This pollen-based candy comes from the marshes of southern Iraq.

This Denver specialty, a hybrid of Mexican and American cuisine, is peak comfort food.

This hot-pink sweet treat that bears only a notional resemblance to poultry is a Canadian Christmastime staple.

Nothing to see here, just a humble pie sandwich.

This stick-to-your-ribs Scandinavian dumpling is a favorite at Midwestern fundraisers.

This celebration of the largest edible fruit native to the United States features plenty of “pawpawpular” foods.

Revelers roast wieners and “witches” at this annual Czech festival.

This pepper's sweet taste and long, slow burn is found in a single town.

A pharmaceutical company developed this beverage as drinkable IV solution.

This brandy-spiked recipe reveals the reclusive poet was actually a well-known baker.

Frozen custard gets topped with green chile sauce and salty pecans to make this Las Cruces specialty.

This smoky, spicy dish comes straight out of Cajun country.

Candy makers recently resurrected this crispy Chicago confection from the graveyard of vintage sweets.

In Thai lore, these fried hard-boiled eggs are a delicious warning for a misbehaving husband.

Soft young cones make a sweet jam believed to have health benefits in Russia and Georgia.

This thick bean soup is a Good Friday tradition for Nigeria's Afro-Brazilian community.

Some Bretons claim that their signature treat is the fattiest pastry in the world.

Authentic renditions of this Vietnamese noodle dish rely on the terroir of a single coastal city.

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

This sweet, silky Irish pudding has a secret ingredient: seaweed.

In an Ethiopian forest, a dying breed of beekeepers scales dangerously tall trees to harvest nectar from handmade hives.

This shape-shifting bread has kept its traditional name, but continued to reinvent itself with changing times.

Drinkers downed this serious cocktail while hurling heavy rings at posts in the 18th century.