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These untraditional chocolate chip cookies are fantastic for fall. Substitute molasses if you can't find treacle. Continue...

In Sweden, these shortbread cookies are traditionally cut into star shapes and garnished with pearl sugar, which can be found at specialty baking stores and online sources.

This feastworthy dish, based on a recipe in Pork & Sons by Stéphane Reynaud (Phaidon, 2007), calls for fresh ham, a succulent cut from the pig’s hind leg that yields crisp skin and juicy meat.

The recipe for this dish comes from Asian Dumplings by Andrea Nguyen (Ten Speed Press, 2009).

The salty, smoky ham known as speck is a traditional ingredient in this tart; bacon is a good substitute.

Gingerbread cookies like these are popular in Sweden during the holidays.

This dessert, topped with crushed peppermint candies, is one of many versions of kola, a kind of semisoft toffee adored all over Sweden.

The New York City–based cookbook author Zarela Martinez gave us the recipe for this smoky, chipotle-spiked, Coca-Cola-glazed ham.

This dish, a specialty from the Burgundy region of France, makes for an elegant holiday appetizer or lunch.