Foods victorialhthompson Wants to Try

This ricotta and marzipan pastry honors the Sicilian saint's most noteworthy body part.

This tomato variety can stay fresh for six months after harvesting.

Italians make a bloody delicious chocolate pudding.

The seductively delicious Easter cake once made an entire convent neglect its prayers.

Sheffield’s secret sauce has a cult following.

This offal soup is a classic Greek hangover cure.

After the giant food fight is over, fire trucks are needed to hose down the sauce-filled streets.

This flat, silver spoon holds an exalted place in the mystery and ritual of absinthe drinking.

Pay tribute to the poet Robert Burns with bagpipes, readings, and heaping helpings of haggis.

These tricky pitchers turned pouring into a complex drinking game.

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

Pressed from frozen grapes, this prized wine was a sweet accident.

These almond cakes resembling gold ingots were sold near the Paris stock exchange.

Revelers roast wieners and “witches” at this annual Czech festival.

The sweet, tiny wild berries are only available for two months each year.

Remembering a time when designated celery vases were prized centerpieces.

Where maple sap flows, all one needs to make taffy is snow.

A New England tradition of steaming bread in coffee tins gave rise to this niche snack.

Ice cream made with fresh snow is a beloved Southern tradition.

Mexico's “mouse melon” is actually a tiny cucumber.

The competition that shrinks shrimp cocktail to the size of your pinky and fits bento into a matchbox.

In the 1970s, housewives stabbed their cakes and filled the holes with Jell-O.

This jewel-like corn became an internet sensation.

New Jersey’s favorite breakfast meat forms the salty spine of this summer sweet.