Foods noonwraith Has Tried

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

This “brown cheese” tastes like caramel.

In Poland's highlands, a small group makes a beautiful, smoky sheep's milk cheese.

The fiery fruit brandy of the Balkans.

The same grass that feeds massive European bison adds notes of vanilla and lavender to this unique Polish vodka.

This Polish Easter tradition artfully assembles symbolic foods, from bread to lamb-shaped butter.

Some families keep their holiday meal fresh by letting it live in their bathtub.

The sweet-and-sour soda almost disappeared with the collapse of communist rule in then-Czechoslovakia.

These pull-apart rolls were once baked with lottery tickets in the center.

These Polish pre-Lent doughnuts have taken on a life (and an eating contest) of their own in the United States.