Foods Lana Velkov Has Tried

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

This dessert is roasted over a fire and looks like a tree.

The bread and butter of Dutch cuisine includes these jumbo sprinkles.

The marshmallow-based candy is named for a delicacy just out of the ancient Greeks' reach.

The most sobering salad of the Russian Civil War.

This Dutch-Indonesian cake contains up to 30 layers.

The dessert that's also a meal.

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

Cream, eggs, and pork drippings combine in the ultimate Serbian bread bowl.

Beer meets soda in this refreshing Estonian brew.

These woolly pigs produce the “Kobe beef of pork.”

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

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

Traditional Easter pudding, best served untraditionally.

A bloody good candy bar.

Tarragon provides the herbal kick to this neon-green Georgian soda.

Hungary's favorite chocolate bar is filled with cheese curd.

The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.

Soviet cafeterias whipped up this chocolate “potato” to use leftovers.

The sweet is naturally a bubblegum shade of pink.

The fiery fruit brandy of the Balkans.

The thrifty Estonian grain mix makes creamy drinks and candy bars.

These ornately decorated spice cookies developed alongside a Russian city's gun industry.

This decadent schnitzel stuffed with clotted cream is named after the leader of Serbia's fight for independence.