Foods James Springer Has Tried

What better way to celebrate Shrove Tuesday than to run with a pancake-laden skillet?

These intricate stamps are relics from a time when dairy farmers beautifully branded their products.

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

These Neapolitan Christmas sweets double as decorations.

Pennsylvania's pork loaf embodies Amish resourcefulness.

There's even a museum dedicated to this preserved meat.

Teething babies and royalty were fans of this British city's signature sherry.

You can roast your potatoes in this rendered fat, or just spread it on bread and eat it cold.

In Yorkshire, the holidays usher in this salty-sweet combo.

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

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

The world's least practical and most delicious edible straw.

Grown in the volcanic soil around Mt. Vesuvius, these tomatoes are one of only a couple varieties used in authentic Neapolitan pizza.

The original energy bar.

This "Fluid of Beef" fed an army and makes a hearty tea.

Baking this dual-layered bread is a difficult art.

Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.

To release steam, Victorian bakers placed whimsical ceramics in their pastries.

Only two silent monks know all 130 plants that go into this herbal liqueur.

A citrusy cream soda with a hint of rust outsells Coca-Cola in Scotland.

The best place to find the “nectar of the gods” is Holy Island.

The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.

Scotland's beloved traditional dish is deep-fried and served up fast-food style.

This controversial meat is ingrained in ancient Nordic culture.