Foods Joel Cusumano Has Tried

Venetians celebrate the end of a 16th-century plague with sweet and sour sardines.

Sicilian nuns once hung these sugary "fruits" from tree branches.

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

This cousin of root beer has a long history and a surprisingly minty taste.

This classic San Franciscan ice cream sandwich is it, isn't it?

Donn Beach wrote the recipe for his famously potent cocktail in secret code.

The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.

Italians make a bloody delicious chocolate pudding.

Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.

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

Early 20th-century chefs used beaver musk to give sweets a vanilla-raspberry flavor.

The fiery Calabrian meat spread also goes by "red Nutella" and "poor man's Viagra."

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