Breads

🇷🇺Russia

Sushki

Сушки

Tiny dry bread rings the size of a coin, glazed and crunchy enough to dunk in tea; the shrunken cousins of baranki.

🇬🇪Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Georgia

Svan Meat Bread

Კუბდარი

A mountain bread stuffed with hand-chopped pork or beef, onion and the highland spice blend, sealed and baked.

🇩🇪Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Swabian Pretzel

Schwäbische Brezel

Soft pretzel from Swabia with a distinctive looped shape, deep brown crust, and soft chewy interior.

🇸🇪Sweden

Swedish Crispbread

Knäckebröd

Traditional Swedish crispbread made from rye flour, baked until dry and crunchy with a hole in the center for storage.

🇦🇼Aruba

Sweet Bread

Pan Dushi

Pan dushi ('sweet bread'); a traditional Aruban sweet bread; a popular breakfast and snack item; a feature of local bakeries; a staple of Aruban cuisine

🇭🇺Hungary

Sweet Bread

Kalács

Kalács is a Hungarian braided sweet bread, often made with milk, with a soft crumb and lightly sweet flavour.

🇸🇹Sao Tome and Principe

Sweet Bread

Pão Doce

Sweet bread made with light, sweetened dough; often flavored with coconut or cinnamon; eaten as a snack or breakfast item; served with coffee or tea; a Portuguese-influenced bread adopted into Santomean cuisine; found at bakeries and quitandas across the islands; the sweet bread of Sao Tome mornings.

🇷🇴Romania

Sweet Bread Roll

Cozonac

An enriched yeasted loaf swirled with a filling of ground walnut, cocoa and rum, baked for Easter and Christmas and sliced to show the spiral.

🇸🇪Sweden

Sweet Rye Bread

Limpa

Soft, slightly sweet rye loaf scented with anise, caraway, fennel seeds, and bitter orange peel.

🇨🇭Graubünden, Switzerland

Swiss Pear Bread

Bündner Birnbrot

A bread dough wrapped around a dense filling of dried pears, figs, raisins, nuts and kirsch, baked as a loaf and sliced thin.

🇧🇴Bolivia

T'anta Wawa

A Bolivian sweet bread shaped like a baby or doll, decorated with icing and especially prepared for the All Saints’ season.

🇲🇦Morocco

Tafarnout (Amazigh Bread)

تافارنوت

Amazigh semolina bread baked against the wall or floor of a hot clay oven until smoky and blistered.

🇮🇷Iran

Taftan

تافتان

Leavened bread of milk, egg and yoghurt scented with cardamom and saffron, baked into a thick, soft round.

🇵🇫French Polynesia

Tahitian Sweet Bread

Fara'oa

Faraoa is the everyday French Polynesian bread form, baked from wheat dough into a crusted loaf or roll for breakfast and to accompany savoury dishes.

🇹🇯Tajikistan

Tajik Kulcha

Кулча

A small enriched milk bread baked in the tandoor, softer and sweeter than everyday non.

🇵🇼Palau

Tama

Palauan tama are small sweet fritters made from flour, eggs, milk, sugar, and baking powder, with banana added in the tama tuu variation.

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia

Tamees

تميس

Tamees (the Afghan-derived tandoor flatbread) is baked in dedicated tamees bakeries across Saudi Arabia and is ordered by name; it is not a variant of the carried Saudi breads.

🇬🇲The Gambia

Tapalapa

Dense brown bread of millet, maize and wheat flour baked in wood-fired ovens into long, heavy loaves.

🇹🇨Turks and Caicos Islands

TCI Coconut Bread

Coconut Bread

Sweet bread made with fresh coconut meat, flour, sugar, and vanilla; a local favourite at bakeries in the Turks and Caicos Islands; a traditional island baked good; a TCI treat.

🇹🇨Turks and Caicos Islands

TCI Corn Bread

Corn Bread

Bread made from cornmeal flour ground from local Guinea Corn; a traditional staple before wheat breads became common in the Turks and Caicos Islands

🇹🇨Turks and Caicos Islands

TCI Johnny Cake

Johnny Cake

Slightly sweetened pan-baked cornbread that preserved well for sailors and fishermen on long trips; derived from 'Journey Cake'; served with boiled fish, souse, or as a snack; a staple of Turks and Caicos cuisine.

🇹🇨Turks and Caicos Islands

TCI Potato Bread

Potato Bread

Sweet bread made with grated sweet potato, coconut, flour, and sugar; a specialty of Middle and North Caicos; a traditional Turks and Caicos baked good

🇬🇾Guyana

Tennis Roll

A small, slightly sweet enriched bun sold hot from the bakery, split and filled with cheese or eaten plain with tea.

🇺🇸Texas, United States

Texas Toast

Thick-sliced bread, buttered and griddled or grilled until golden.

🇩🇪Nuremberg, Germany

Three in a Roll

Drei im Weggla

Nuremberg street food with a circular bun stuffed with three grilled Nürnberger sausages and mustard.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Tiger Bread

Tijgerbrood

White bread with mottled crust from rice paste applied before baking, which cracks during baking to create tiger-like pattern.

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

Tonir Bread

Թոնրի հաց

Thick round loaves baked against the wall of the same clay pit oven as lavash, blistered on one side and flat on the other.

🇮🇹Parma, Italy

Torta Fritta

Torta fritta parmigiana

Parma's airy fried dough traditionally served with local cured meats and soft cheese.

🇦🇷Argentina

Tortitas Negras

Small, round, slightly sweet bread rolls with a dark, caramelized sugar crust. A rustic panadería factura, often eaten with mate or coffee at merienda.

🇨🇦Atlantic Canada, Canada

Toutons

Fried bread dough pieces, traditionally breakfast food served with molasses, butter, jam, or maple syrup.

🇺🇸United States

Trenary toast

A Michigan and Upper Peninsula rusk: twice-baked bread slices, sweet and crisp, for coffee dunking.

🇬🇷Greece

Tsoureki

Τσουρέκι

Greek sweet braided bread, soft and fluffy, scented with mahlepi and mastiha, a Easter tradition. A national sweet bread, often with a red egg, a festive and aromatic treat, a spring staple.

🇧🇬Sofia, Bulgaria

Tutmanik

Тутманик

Enriched bread dough layered with white cheese, butter and egg, baked in a pan and torn apart rather than sliced.

🇹🇻Tuvalu

Tuvaluan Fausi

Fausi

Local bread made from flour, toddy (as sugar substitute), and coconut; a traditional Tuvaluan bread that uses toddy instead of imported sugar; the toddy gives a distinctive caramel-like sweetness; a practical bread that uses local ingredients; also a Samoan dish name for a banana-coconut dessert.

🇲🇨Monaco, Monaco

U Pan de Natale

Sweet circular Christmas loaf decorated with four walnuts in the shape of a cross, with sprigs of olive and orange tree placed in the centre; traditionally served during Christmastide in Monaco; a ritual bread tying food to Monegasque religious tradition.

🇧🇮Burundi

Ubrobe

Dried cassava meal mixed with water to form a thick paste, then wrapped in banana leaves and steamed until solid; a dense, slightly sour cassava staple similar to Congolese chikuanga, eaten with stews and sauces.