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The modest root vegetable makes a potent liquor in Wildschönau, Austria.

These buns from South Africa's Cape Winelands are traditionally leavened with the must used to make wine.

This century-old New Orleans treat is still sold from a mule-drawn cart.

Popular in colonial New England, this “apple molasses” is now made by only a handful of commercial producers.

These savory pastries come from Lithuania's Karaim minority.

There's a legend that this Latvian herbal liqueur saved an ailing Catherine the Great.

Soft young cones make a sweet jam believed to have health benefits in Russia and Georgia.

This sliceable sweet treat is actually dairy-free.

Ground nuts provide the base for this warm, caffeine-free drink.

This Lithuanian brew adds green peas to the malt.

This wheat-based coffee alternative has a cult following.

This Southern church group favorite isn't Slavic at all.

This pricey dessert is made from frogs' fallopian tubes.

This Hungarian fried dough can make a rich breakfast or trusty hangover cure.

This device bucks the Russian tradition of sharing a cup of tea and makes just enough hot water for one person.

This tasty Czech pastry is now a Texan tradition.

This spicy Nigerian stew is made from a goat's head and served with its "particulars."

Once the bugs have moved on, termite towers can be used for outdoor bread baking.

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

These old-school metal tea-glass holders are a fixture on Russian trains.

Without salt or refrigeration, early residents of the Faroe Islands preserved their mutton with the cold wind.

Armenians were making these sweet sheets of dried fruit centuries before the Fruit Roll-Up.

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

Across East Africa, these cardamom-flavored doughnuts are the perfect pairing for chai.