The rich, potato-filled dish nourished Catholics on meatless Fridays.

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

Fruit soaks in rum for up to a year to make this rich Caribbean Christmas cake.

No Bonfire Night is complete without a cup of this warm, vinegar-flavored snack.

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

A sweet and sticky accident from Derbyshire, England.

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

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

A bit of the past bubbles up in Israel's reinvention of its classic summer sipper.

Bitter, sweet, and salty collide in this cool Taiwanese treat.

This traditional drink is made with a little-known variety of cacao.

Icelanders make a very, very good dog.

This tangy East Coast spread is becoming increasingly hard to find.

It's not what you think it is, unless you're from the Garden State.

The reddest of the red meat.

Recycling comes to dessert, with delicious outcomes.

A cake so gooey, it requires a spoon.

These exquisite dried persimmons are massaged for weeks.

It’s only fitting that a racehorse named after this Kentucky stew won the state’s signature Derby.

The competition that shrinks shrimp cocktail to the size of your pinky and fits bento into a matchbox.

These deep-fried dough daisies outlived the Fort Erie amusement park in which they were born.

The marshmallow spread's birthplace offers a quirky tribute to the sweet-sticky stuff.

This Dutch-Indonesian cake contains up to 30 layers.

They're a Baltimore-specific guilty pleasure.