Breads

🇳🇿New Zealand

Rēwena Bread

Rēwena parāoa

Sourdough leavened with a potato starter kept alive as a bug, giving a dense, slightly sweet loaf with a sour edge.

🇱🇨Saint Lucia

Saint Lucian Bakes

Bakes

Fried bread, also referred to as floats; rounds of dough that are normally deep fried, with a texture somewhere between a bread roll and a doughnut; the element of a Saint Lucia breakfast; sometimes served with the national dish; often split open with a filling like a sandwich; the bakes of Saint Lucia; a breakfast staple.

🇱🇨Saint Lucia

Saint Lucian Cassava Bread

Cassava Bread

Round cassava bread made in different flavours; a traditional Saint Lucian staple; made at Plas Kassav near Canaries; flavours include cherry and raisin

🇱🇧Lebanon

Saj Bread

خبز صاج

Thin flatbread cooked on hot metal saj griddle, light, golden, with pleasant aroma, used in fatteh, mansaf, and various pastries across Saudi, large thin almost transparent with golden color and light weight, a beloved daily staple.

🇺🇸United States

Salt-Rising Bread

A dense, tangy white bread leavened by a fermented cornmeal starter, with a distinctive cheesy smell.

🇺🇿Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Samarkand Non

Самарқанд нони

Samarkand's round flatbread, stamped and baked in a tandoor.

🇮🇶Iraq

Samoon

صمون

Iraqi samoon is a puffy, diamond-shaped bread baked in a hot oven and eaten with stews, kebab and breakfast spreads.

🇺🇸San Francisco, United States

San Francisco Sourdough

A wild-yeast bread with a deeply tangy flavor and thick blistered crust, shaped by San Francisco's distinctive microclimate.

🇺🇸United States

Scali Bread

A Boston Italian-American bread: a long, soft white loaf, made with oil and often sesame seeds.

🇨🇭Basel, Switzerland

Schlumbergerli

A small, soft bread roll from Basel, split and filled with ham, cheese or sausage, eaten as a quick snack from bakery windows.

🇬🇧United Kingdom

Scone

Sconaí

A small plain or fruited quick bread, split and spread with jam and clotted cream as the centre of a cream tea.

🇬🇧Scotland, United Kingdom

Scottish Bannock

Scottish Bannock is a round, griddled oat-and-barley bread with a firm edge and tender crumb.

🇩🇪Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Seele Bread

Seele

Traditional bread from Baden-Württemberg made with wheat and spelt, hand-shaped oblong loaves with caraway and salt.

🇨🇳Tibet, China

Sha Balep (Tibetan Meat Bread)

ཤ་བག་ལེབ

Sha balep, the Tibetan flatbread stuffed with spiced yak or beef and fried, is the plateau's most-eaten named dish.

🇾🇪Yemen

Shafut

Sheets of lahoh flatbread soaked in seasoned buttermilk with coriander, leek, garlic and green chilli, served cold.

🇯🇵Japan

Shokupan

食パン

Shokupan, the tall square milk loaf whose pull-apart crumb has become an export phenomenon, is a named Japanese bread with dedicated bakeries.

🇬🇪Georgia

Shoti Bread

Შოთის პური

A canoe-shaped white loaf slapped onto the wall of a clay tone oven and peeled off when it blisters, sold within minutes of baking.

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia

Shuraik

شريك

Shuraik is soft Saudi bread made with flour, yeast, sugar, milk, and crushed chickpeas, with a lightly sweet golden crumb.

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Simit

Геврек

A ring-shaped bread coated in toasted sesame seeds, baked until golden-brown and slightly crunchy on the outside while soft inside. Sold from red municipal carts and street vendors across Turkey, it is the most ubiquitous street food in the country, often eaten with tea for breakfast or as a snack.

🇲🇰North Macedonia

Simit Pogača

Симит погача

Round yeasted bread enriched with milk and oil, baked to a soft crumb and torn rather than sliced.

🇬🇪Georgia

Sinori

Სინორი

Torn sheets of thin flatbread layered with fresh curd and clarified butter, then warmed through so it collapses into a soft mass.

🇱🇻Latvia

Skrīveru Maize Bread

Skrīveru maize

Traditional bread producer known for quality rye bread products, a recognized Latvian brand.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Slovak Paska

Paska

A Slovak Easter bread of sweet enriched dough, sometimes decorated with a braided cross, baked for Easter Sunday and served with ham and horseradish.

🇬🇧Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Soda Farl

A quarter of a soda bread round cooked on a griddle rather than baked, split and fried or buttered hot.

🇺🇸New York, United States

Soft Pretzel

A large, twisted baked pretzel with a dark brown, salted crust and chewy interior, a Philadelphia and New York street snack.

🇫🇮Finland

Sour Crispbread

Hapankorppu

Traditional fermented rye crispbread with tangy flavor and crunch, made from sourdough and wholegrain rye.

🇸🇸South Sudan

South Sudanese Bussaara

Bussaara

South Sudanese broad bean dip; beans cooked and mashed with oil, onions, and spices; similar to the Sudanese bussaara; eaten with bread or kisra; a protein-rich dish; a staple for breakfast or as a side; influenced by Sudanese cuisine.

🇸🇸South Sudan

South Sudanese Umfitit

Umfitit

South Sudanese dish of mixed offal and meat; liver, kidney, heart, and intestines cleaned and cooked with onions, tomatoes, and spices; a delicacy for offal lovers; influenced by Sudanese cuisine; served with kisra or bread; a specialty dish.

🇪🇸Spain

Spanish Fried Breadcrumbs

Migas

Migas are Spanish shepherds' fried bread crumbs cooked with garlic and olive oil, often enriched with chorizo or other regional additions.

🇺🇸United States

Spoonbread

A soft, soufflé-like cornmeal pudding baked in a dish — 'bread' you eat with a spoon.

🇨🇭St. Gallen, Switzerland

St. Gallen Bread

St. Galler Brot

A rustic white bread from St. Gallen with a flour-dusted, slashed crust and a soft, airy crumb, baked in a wood-fired oven.

🇬🇷Greece

Stafidopsomo

Σταφιδόψωμο

Sweet raisin bread.

🇨🇳China

Steamed Bread

馒头

Plain unfilled steamed wheat buns, the everyday bread of northern China, eaten with dishes or fried and dipped in condensed milk.

🇰🇷South Korea

Steamed Buns

호빵

Korean steamed buns filled with red bean paste, meat, or vegetables, a popular winter convenience food and street snack.

🇳🇱Friesland, Netherlands

Sugar Bread

Suikerbrood

Frisian yeast-based white bread with large lumps of pearl sugar mixed throughout, flavored with cinnamon.

🇳🇴Norway

Sunnmørsbrød

Sunnmørsbrød is a bread or flatbread from Sunnmøre, rooted in local cooking tradition.