Pilgrims trekking across Spain can stop for free wine at the Monasterio de Irache.

A Depression-era patty filler paved the way for an Oklahoma favorite.

To eat the world's rarest pasta, you must first complete a 20-mile pilgrimage.

This unique soup of chicken drippings, vinegar, and cayenne pepper has been a Bradford, Tennessee, favorite for decades.

Bakers fold this Polish pastry 81 times into the shape of a horseshoe.

The caffeinated wine is made by British monks and loved by Scottish criminals.

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

This Christmas tree elixir kept Vikings and Captain Cook alive.

The first thing eaten off the Ark.

The lychee-looking fruit appears in everything from jam and liqueur to the Aeneid and Madrid's flag.

The fire-roasted cheese is the medieval precursor to Welsh rarebit.

This French marathon has regular stops for wine, cheese, and oysters.

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

A candy made with chocolate, coconut and ... mashed potatoes?

A legume so loved, it’s caused a “fever” in France and made Americans break laws.

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

Its deep-fried crust is part of a longstanding Neapolitan tradition.

Cream, eggs, and pork drippings combine in the ultimate Serbian bread bowl.

A cocktail that originated in a British officers’ club in erstwhile Burma now has fans across the world.

A Finnish city specializes in sausages housed in sugar-dusted doughnuts.

Catholics once circumvented meatless fasts by claiming the semi-aquatic rodent was a fish.

This vintage dessert of bread, cheese, and syrup nearly disappeared from Peru.

Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.

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