Outside chapels carved from cliffs and caves, elderly women sell sweet, beautiful breads rooted in Armenia’s Christian traditions.

The bread and butter of Dutch cuisine includes these jumbo sprinkles.

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

The Sardinian cheese that wriggles with maggots.

This sharp and salty Egyptian cheese ferments for months in a bath of milk and spices.

The original cheeseburger, hold the beef patty.

Sardinia may be home to the oldest style of cheese.

This ancient, spreadable cheese is disappearing from Scottish cuisine.

Monks and nuns elevate this soft cheese with a wash of walnut liqueur.

The pungent pickled cheese is a popular Czech bar snack.

This canned cheddar is made using a secret 70-year-old bacteria culture.

The rare, cave-aged Turkish cheese is one of the last vestiges of a dying cheese-making tradition.

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

Brie's dark, older cousin can only be found in one region of France.

You'll love it almost as much as the critters clinging to the rind.

The world's most expensive cheese is made from Balkan donkey milk.

A small village in Bulgaria is working to revive its nearly extinct moldy cheese.

These cheese balls have fueled Central Asian nomads for centuries.

In a Romanian village, a cave's unique conditions produce a rare, funky cheese.

These rare, hand-pulled strands of cheese are making a comeback in southwestern Georgia.

From hulking plains creatures comes a delicate, nutty cheese.

In Poland's highlands, a small group makes a beautiful, smoky sheep's milk cheese.

These massive, booze-filled cakes once made voting sweet.

A custardy twist on apple pie finds delicious use for fruit reaching spoilage.