Foods Sporadicus Wants to Try

Make like Jane Austen and sip from the fountain in this famed Pump Room.

These Japanese sweets demonstrate the ephemeral beauty of the seasons.

This ancient, spreadable cheese is disappearing from Scottish cuisine.

The essence of Canada's eastern coastline, distilled.

One southern Indiana town cooks up this unique, time-honored dessert every September.

This sweet, silky Irish pudding has a secret ingredient: seaweed.

The intoxicating South African fruit is beloved by humans and elephants.

Once steamed in shirt sleeves and pant legs, this sweet roll took on the nickname “dead man's leg.”

A sweet and sticky accident from Derbyshire, England.

Local lore claims that German bakers made these pastries as an act of quiet rebellion during French occupation.

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

Ancient Celtic settlers brought this honey-based drink to Brittany.

Some Bretons claim that their signature treat is the fattiest pastry in the world.

With this egg-based Christmas dessert, Portuguese pastelarias celebrate a bloodsucking fish.

This two-ingredient Malabari dessert turns separated eggs into a striking delicacy.

Portuguese traders' love of marzipan paved the way for Thailand's vibrant mung bean candy.

In Thai lore, these fried hard-boiled eggs are a delicious warning for a misbehaving husband.

This vintage dessert of bread, cheese, and syrup nearly disappeared from Peru.

Once made by monks, this candy spends 15 days rolling in sugar syrup to get its pearly-white shell.

This decadent cheese has frugal roots.

This star-shaped fruit has been beloved for centuries.

This brandy-spiked recipe reveals the reclusive poet was actually a well-known baker.

This sweet spud is neither made with tubers, nor of Irish origin.

In Portugal, a bowl of “camel’s drool” is a sweet treat.