Outside chapels carved from cliffs and caves, elderly women sell sweet, beautiful breads rooted in Armenia’s Christian traditions.

These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.

These entrails identified safe venues for Black musicians during the Jim Crow era.

This is one seriously polarizing pie.

At Danish birthday parties, you can have your cake and decapitate it, too.

North Carolina's “poor man’s pâté” is rich in flavor.

On the streets of Cebu City, strangers share bubbling woks of pork brain gravy.

These Bavarian cookies are also intricate works of art.

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

Iceland's fermented, dried shark smells like urine and can taste like strong cheese.

This lager, once considered the strongest beer in the world, is brewed only on Saint Nicholas's Day.

These cake-laden tables fueled community meetings that helped bring Southern Jutland back into Denmark.

In the 19th century, Chinese immigrants developed an early New England fusion sandwich that is divisive as it is salty.

Elvis Presley once flew across the country to eat this decadent Denver sandwich.

What began as an April Fools' Day prank ended in a testicle-spiked beer.

Smashing this pink candy pig with a tiny hammer is a Christmas tradition in Saratoga Springs.

The candy is huge with Norwegian hikers and skiers.

These eerily bone-like candies come with bumpy “joints” of nuts and chocolate “marrow” inside.

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

This crisp, sour Kenyan brew is made by fermenting the “sausage” fruit.

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

This style of fried chicken is pressure-cooked while it fries.

This hot-pink sweet treat that bears only a notional resemblance to poultry is a Canadian Christmastime staple.

A sweet and nutty liqueur made with the fruit of the "elephant tree."