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At a subterranean Edinburgh bar, drinkers can assemble their cocktails via kitschy claw machine.

Make like a 19th-century Belgian miner and cool off with this refreshing ale.

Beer-brewing monks make aromatic, ale-flavored cheese in the Belgian countryside.

These sweet hands come with stories of triumph and brutality.

This Christmas bread is formed in the shape of the baby Jesus.

The holiday tradition of hiding an ornamental veggie.

Germans turn up for a rare, pointed cabbage.

In medieval Germany, drinkers followed a star to local lager.

“And eggs are open in the twinkling of an eye.”

A hangover cure that spans classes and centuries.

The washed and dried root of the licorice plant was once a popular natural “candy.”

This protected German fruit has its own representative queen.

These tricky pitchers turned pouring into a complex drinking game.

This German comfort food unites earthbound potatoes with apples from above.

Brewers are replacing hops with sweet, aromatic herbs to resurrect this extinct beer.

The surprisingly subversive history of dancing over afternoon tea.

This German sundae masquerades as an Italian dinner.

This mushroom tastes just like chicken.

No one eats pickled herring like the Dutch.

The Dutch drinking ritual begins with a glass of genever and ends with a “little head-butt.”

A distillery's abandoned barrels of cinnamon liqueur led to this new Dutch tradition.

Every December, Sinterklaas and his helper throw these little spiced cookies to Dutch children.

Flower bulbs are the main ingredient of this quintessentially Dutch spirit.

Atop every serving of Dutch “war fries,” a pile of spicy, savory condiments do battle.