In this summer phenomenon, fish swarm Alabama shores and waterfront residents scoop up the bounty.

Preparing a traditional Māori feast requires a rock pit heated by fire or hot springs.

A town harvest festival with a giant miso soup bowl.

In Peru, layers of potatoes, meat, and sweets are steamed in a pit filled with volcanic rocks.

This Polish Easter tradition artfully assembles symbolic foods, from bread to lamb-shaped butter.

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

In Wales, midwinter is the right time to look a gift horse in its gaping skull-mouth.

The holiday tradition of hiding an ornamental veggie.

The annual feast invites local macaques to dine on towers of fruit and vegetables among the ruins of a 13th-century temple.

In homestyle Portuguese restaurants known as tascas, savory stewed chicken gizzards are a flavorful favorite.

A completely delicious, nearly nutrient-free sandwich beloved by generations of New Englanders.

This Okinawan specialty resembles a Japanese take on Taco Bell.

For a juicier burger, steam it like a vegetable.

You eat the shell, too.

This staple sandwich of Brooklyn delis has become a symbol of gentrification.

A delicious corn-based porridge that happens to smell like vomit.

This Cape Town sandwich is as extravagant as a certain literary character.

The beef fat–fried version that first caught Ray Kroc's eye is now extinct.

The cornmeal patty that Rhode Islanders eat morning, noon, and night.

This is what happens when soldiers pick a new name for meat on bread.

No slugs were harmed in the making of this five-cent sandwich.

A bland but storied soup is always on the menu in the U.S. Senate.

Adding juniper ash to this traditional Navajo dish gives it as much calcium as a glass of milk.

A Canadian pudding that's boiled in a bag and is interchangeably lunch and dessert.