Turning this cocktail into a fluffy cloud is easy—just hire someone to shake it for 12 minutes straight. 

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

The New Orleans cocktail is part pick-me-up, part pyrotechnics show.

This century-old New Orleans treat is still sold from a mule-drawn cart.

Mixing soy sauce, Creole spices, and spaghetti, this hybrid soup is the embodiment of New Orleans' melting pot.

Recycling comes to dessert, with delicious outcomes.

A veal-based sausage that survived a royal beef ban.

This old-school Italian dish comes in a rich and savory wrapper.

Make yourself delicious jewelry with these sweet Italian biscuits.

Grown in the volcanic soil around Mt. Vesuvius, these tomatoes are one of only a couple varieties used in authentic Neapolitan pizza.

Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.

The aging process of this formaggio begins in a barrel of wine.

This sweet symbolic figurine is a Sicilian holiday tradition.

As fine as the marble it's cured in, this pig fat salumi is a Tuscan masterpiece.

The fiery Calabrian meat spread also goes by "red Nutella" and "poor man's Viagra."

Sardinia may be home to the oldest style of cheese.

After being banned for a decade and a half, this Roman classic is back on the table.

Italy's first beer cheese gets coated in spent brewing grains and soaked in lager.

This Sicilian sheep's milk cheese is colored with saffron and studded with black peppercorns.

Bread so thin, you can read music through the dough.

These Neapolitan Christmas sweets double as decorations.

After dining on this fish, your next course might be 36 hours of hallucinations.

To circumvent a meat ban, Italian immigrants hid their soppressata in balls of cheese.

Folding and deep-frying pies is a beloved Neapolitan tradition.