This ricotta and marzipan pastry honors the Sicilian saint's most noteworthy body part.

Just so we’re clear, there is actually milk in this old English punch.

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

The Virginia treat can “make even your deepest-dyed Yankee start complimenting you with a southern accent.”

When life gives you lemons, this tropical fruit makes 'em taste like lemonade.

In a Romanian village, a cave's unique conditions produce a rare, funky cheese.

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

This fruit can also count as dessert.

Neither tea nor hot chocolate, this Caribbean cocoa drink is in a league of its own.

This orange and black licorice flavor is kind of a big deal in Canada.

This hallucinogenic honey can sell for over $60 a pound on the black market.

In Poland's highlands, a small group makes a beautiful, smoky sheep's milk cheese.

Sweet-makers conjure up this light-as-a-cloud cream pudding on dewy nights in Lucknow, India.

By the 21st century, one lone woman held the recipe for what might have been da Vinci’s cheese of choice.

The fairest and rarest of them all.

This pristine honey with a cool menthol aftertaste is produced by honeybees that feast on a Hawaiian mesquite forest.

This traditional Brazilian raw milk cheese is caught in the crosshairs of a battle over government regulation.

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

A sacred tree, a secret language, and the labor of generations of women keep an ancient tradition of salt harvesting alive.

Massive mushrooms spring from tall termite mounds during rainy season in Namibia.

Residents of this Greek island distill mastic sap, the "tears of Chios," into a piney-sweet liqueur.

On an island’s moon-like terrain, grapevines creep out of ashen volcanic soil and create extraordinary elixirs.

The modest root vegetable makes a potent liquor in Wildschönau, Austria.

Once a year, communities on the tiny island gather to preserve the art of making licorice-flavored apple butter.