Fermented fish, maggot cheese and slippery comfort food: Europe’s cuisines offer dishes that repel some and fascinate others, ...

Cheese is a wonderful food. It's a core component of many meals, including some of my personal favorites. But not all cheese is good. In fact, some of it is downright terrifying—and even dangerous.

There is a cheese dangerous enough to eat that it's been illegal to sell for over 60 years, and did we mention that it contains live maggots still wriggling around inside it? This is casu marzu, the ...