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St. Peter's Fish with an array of condiments.

Meats & Animal Products

St. Peter's Fish

It's what you order when you're a Christian pilgrim at the Sea of Galilee.

Turkish Coffee

Drinks

Turkish Coffee

Locals joke that you should be able to “float a horseshoe” on the thick brew.

A basket containing nine pounds of harvested chaga.

Gastro

Chaga Mushroom

This coffee additive and killer of trees has a reputation as a medical marvel.

The molten cheese center cooks the egg and melts the butter.

Prepared Foods

Adjaruli Khachapuri

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

The frosting on Yule log cakes is combed to resemble bark.

Sweets

Yule Log Cake

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

A layer-by-layer look at the colorful salad.

Prepared Foods

Herring Under a Fur Coat

The most sobering salad of the Russian Civil War.

A pot of boiled nettles means savory greens and earthy tea.

Fruits & Vegetables

Stinging Nettles

Boil away this plant's poisonous hairs, and you're left with a tasty, spinach-like leaf.

Sausages ready to sizzle in the sauna.

Gastro

Sauna Sausage

In Finland, you sizzle along with your meal.

Most blood pancakes get topped with lingonberries.

Prepared Foods

Blood Pancakes

Scandinavians use blood to make dense, dark, savory flapjacks.

Berliner weisse, flavored with green woodruff syrup. (Yes, that's a child in a mug on the brewery's logo.)

Drinks

Berliner Weisse

Pink or green syrup turns a historic German ale into a tart, sweet delight.

The French wedding cake.

Sweets

Croquembouche

This French wedding cake is a caramel-wrapped tower of pastry balls.

Eye candy and actual candy.

Sweets

Churchkhela

These delicious strands of juice-coated nuts look like colorful candlesticks.

Aligot from Le Politique Austin.

Prepared Foods

Aligot

These extra-cheesy potatoes resemble decadent fondue.

Spaghettieis

Sweets

Spaghettieis

This German sundae masquerades as an Italian dinner.

Ahvenkukko is Kalakukko with Perch instead of Vendace inside.

Prepared Foods

Kalakukko

Finally, an edible carrying case for fish.

Kissel often appears in drink form; here, with spices such as cinnamon and star anise.

Sweets

Kissel

The dessert that's also a meal.

Kulebyaka

Prepared Foods

Kulebyaka

The decadent, overloaded Russian pie once contained sturgeon spinal cord.

Chimney Cake

Sweets

Chimney Cake

After rotating over hot coals, the Transylvanian treat unravels in a sweet spiral.

Cassata Siciliana

Sweets

Cassata Siciliana

The seductively delicious Easter cake once made an entire convent neglect its prayers.

Green Chartreuse

Drinks

Green Chartreuse

Only two silent monks know all 130 plants that go into this herbal liqueur.

Kali

Drinks

Kali

Beer meets soda in this refreshing Estonian brew.

Mignon Chocolate Egg

Sweets

Mignon Chocolate Egg

Finns celebrate Easter with millions of real eggshells filled with almond-hazelnut nougat.

Mämmi mixed with vanilla sauce.

Sweets

Mämmi

Traditional Easter pudding, best served untraditionally.

Terva Leijona

Sweets

Terva Leijona

For those craving intensity beyond black licorice, how about tar?

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