Breads

🇺🇾Uruguay

Pan de Chicharrones

Bread enriched with lard and studded through with crisp fried pork rind.

🇭🇳Northern Honduras, Honduras

Pan de Coco

Garifuna bread enriched with fresh coconut milk and grated coconut, baked into dense small rounds and sold warm from baskets on the beach.

🇨🇱Chile

Pan de Huevo

Sweet bread enriched with eggs, traditionally eaten during special occasions, rich and golden.

🇻🇪Venezuela

Pan de Jamón

Soft enriched loaf rolled around ham, bacon, green olives and raisins, baked at Christmas and sliced into spirals.

🇨🇴Colombia

Pan de Maíz

A Colombian cornbread made with fresh corn, cheese, and butter, baked until golden. Sweet and dense, it is a coastal and Andean bakery staple.

🇲🇽Mexico

Pan de Muerto

A sweet, orange-scented egg bread shaped with stylized bone-like decorations, baked for Día de Muertos altars.

🇨🇴Colombia

Pan de Sagú

A Colombian bread made with sagú (sago palm) starch and cheese, baked until golden. A traditional bread from the interior, soft and slightly chewy.

🇬🇹Guatemala

Pan de Yema

A Guatemalan sweet bread enriched with egg yolks, sugar, and sometimes anise or sesame, often baked for holidays.

🇨🇴Colombia

Pan de Yuca

A Colombian baked cheese bread made with cassava flour and cheese, similar to Brazilian pão de queijo. Small, round, and chewy, it is a coastal and Amazonian snack.

🇦🇷Gibraltar, Argentina

Pan Dulce

Argentine panettone-style sweet bread with dried fruits and nuts, baked for Christmas and New Year. Brought by Italian immigrants, it is a holiday staple in every home.

🇲🇽Mexico

Pan dulce

The family of Mexican sweet breads — conchas, cuernos, orejas — enjoyed with coffee.

🇵🇪Peru

Pan Francés Peruano

The crisp-crusted everyday roll found in Peruvian bakeries and breakfast tables.

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Pan Sobao

A soft, slightly sweet kneaded loaf with a thin crust, made with lard and baked long — the bread every island sandwich is built on.

🇨🇴Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Pandebono

A round Colombian cheese bread from Valle del Cauca, made with cassava starch, corn flour, and costeño cheese. Soft, chewy, and best eaten warm, it is a breakfast icon.

🇵🇭Philippines

Pandesal

Pandesal is the Philippines' slightly sweet, breadcrumb-dusted yeast roll, baked in neighbourhood panaderias and bought warm for breakfast or merienda.

🇮🇹Sardinia, Italy

Pane Carasau

Sardinian paper-thin twice-baked flatbread ("carta da musica").

🇮🇹Apulia, Italy

Pane di Altamura

PDO durum wheat sourdough from Altamura in Puglia, baked in a wood oven with a thick fragrant crust and a soft yellow crumb. One of Italy's most prized breads.

🇮🇹Tuscany, Italy

Pane Toscano

Tuscan saltless bread (pane sciocco) with a tall airy crumb and a thick crust, traditionally made without salt since the 12th-century salt tax imposed by Pisa.

🇺🇸United States

Parker House Roll

A soft, buttery yeast roll folded into a pocket shape — invented at Boston's Parker House hotel.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Paska

Паска

Paska is a Ukrainian Easter bread rich with eggs, butter, and raisins, often baked as a tall cylindrical loaf.

🇬🇷Crete, Greece

Paximadi

Παξιμάδι

Greek twice-baked hard bread or rusk, from barley or wheat, a dry and long-lasting staple. Used for dakos and salads, a Cretan and island specialty, a rustic and ancient bread, a healthy base.

🇨🇩DR Congo

Peanut Butter Bread

Pain mwambe

Peanut butter bread, a traditional Congolese food; listed in Wikipedia's Congolese cuisine; bread spread with or made with peanut butter; a popular snack and breakfast item; reflects the importance of peanuts in Congolese cuisine; a simple, filling, and nutritious food; found at bakeries and street stalls; the peanut butter bread of the Congo.

🇭🇰Hong Kong

Peanut Butter Condensed Milk Toast

花生醬煉奶吐司

Thick toast slathered with peanut butter and condensed milk, a cha chaan teng snack.

🇷🇴Romania

Pecica Bread

Pită de Pecica

A large hearth-baked wheat loaf from Pecica in Arad County, made with high-gluten flour, yeast and salt, with a thick charred crust.

🇺🇸United States

Pepperoni Roll

A West Virginia creation: pepperoni baked inside a bread roll, no sauce.

🇭🇺Hungary

Perec

Hungarian pretzel.

🇮🇷Iran

Persian Sheermal

شیرمال

A traditional Persian saffron and milk sweet bread, soft and slightly sweet, often served with cheese, herbs and tea for breakfast.

🇺🇸Philadelphia, United States

Philadelphia Sticky Buns

Philadelphia's yeasted sticky buns, baked with brown sugar, butter, and often pecans or currants.

🇵🇰Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

Phitti

فٹی

Fermented wheat bread from Balochistan, baked in a clay oven and eaten broken into hot milk or tea for breakfast.

🇺🇸United States

Piki Bread

A Hopi ceremonial bread of blue cornmeal, paper-thin, made on a heated stone.

🇭🇰Guangdong, Hong Kong

Pineapple Bun

菠萝包

A soft bun under a crackled sweet cookie crust, whose crazed pattern gives it the pineapple name; there is no pineapple in it.

🇸🇮Upper Carniola, Slovenia

Pisani Kruh

Two or three doughs — white, buckwheat and maize — layered into one loaf so a slice comes out striped.

🇹🇷Turkey

Pisi

Puffy fried dough, savoury breakfast or street snack.

🇬🇶Annobón (Island), Equatorial Guinea

Pissoj

Annobonese bread made from grated yam or cassava mixed with coconut milk, wrapped in banana leaves, and baked or steamed; variants include white, red (with palm oil), and coconut.

🇧🇪Wallonia, Belgium

Pistolet

Small, crusty round bread roll, the everyday Walloon lunch bread.

🇲🇰North Macedonia

Pitalka

Питалка

Pitalka is a round North Macedonian bread with a browned crust and soft, close crumb, commonly bought warm from a bakery.