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Preparing a traditional Māori feast requires a rock pit heated by fire or hot springs.

Fermenting raw durian is a better idea than you thought.

Devoted fans pay thousands for bricks of this fermented tea.

From hulking plains creatures comes a delicate, nutty cheese.

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

Portugal's volcanic archipelago is home to addictively sweet and chewy muffins.

Small Haitian distilleries are producing some of the purest rum in the world.

"Monk's Head" cheese requires a special shaver.

The way to celebrate unmarried Danes’ 25th and 30th birthdays is to attack them with spices.

At Danish birthday parties, you can have your cake and decapitate it, too.

Gargantuan pots of slow-cooked lamb, noodles, and red wine feed everyone at a Mallorcan harvest festival.

You can still drink riesling and pinot noir from this medieval cellar.

This lager, once considered the strongest beer in the world, is brewed only on Saint Nicholas's Day.

The decadent pastry almost outshines the Slovenian lake it's named for.

This tangy East Coast spread is becoming increasingly hard to find.

A wine so luxuriously sweet, it's consumed by the spoonful.

Many popular cereals exploded out of its chamber and into existence.

It takes patience and skill to harvest these delicious bivalves.

The Icelandic brew is made with malts smoked over burning sheep dung.

Bishop's Vineyard makes its products from grapes grown in California graveyards.

These seashell-shaped, yolk-filled candies are a symbol of Portugal's canal-lined city.

To honor Iceland's patron saint, feast on fermented skate.

This annual offering involves four million women, one goddess, and incredible quantities of rice pudding.

On this holiday, Icelandic children earn cream buns by spanking their parents.