Breads

🇺🇸United States

Dodger Dog

A 10-inch grilled pork sausage in a steamed bun, the signature of Los Angeles's Dodger Stadium.

🇩🇲Dominica

Dominican Cassava Bread

Cassava Bread

Traditional bread made from cassava; a staple of the Kalinago, the island's Indigenous people; the use of root crops like cassava formed the base of what would become national staples; dishes like cassava bread and farine were common; the cassava bread of Dominica; a link to the island's Indigenous heritage; a rustic, gluten-free flatbread.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Dorset knob

Dorset knob is a bread or flatbread from Dorset, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇮🇳Hyderabad, India

Double Ka Meetha

डबल का मीठा

A Hyderabadi dessert of bread soaked in sweetened milk and saffron. Similar to shahi tukda, it is rich and fragrant.

🇩🇪Dresden, Germany

Dresden Stollen

Dresdner Stollen

Traditional German Christmas fruit bread from Dresden, filled with dried fruits, nuts, and marzipan, dusted with sugar.

🇻🇮U.S. Virgin Islands

Dumb Bread

Round yeast-free bread made with flour, water, butter, sugar, baking powder, milk, and often shredded coconut; cooked in a skillet over hot coals with coals on top, using the dum pukht technique from India.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Dutch Rusk

Beschuit

Light, very dry twice-baked bread sold in rolls of thirteen (baker's dozen), served with butter and toppings.

🇦🇹Austria

Easter Pinza

Osterpinze

Easter Pinza is a lightly sweet yeast bread with three cuts, made for Easter in Styria, Burgenland, and Croatian regions where it is called Pinca.

🇬🇷Greece

Eftazymo

Επτάζυμο

A Lenten bread from Kalymnos kneaded seven times and left to rise seven hours (hence "seven-times"), dense, faintly sweet, dotted with sesame.

🇰🇷South Korea

Egg Bread

계란빵

A small loaf of sweet bread with a whole egg baked on top, a popular winter street food, both sweet and savory.

🇪🇬Egypt

Eish Fino

A soft Libyan Italian-style bread roll split for tuna, egg, harissa, or other street-sandwich fillings.

🇹🇷Turkey

Ekmek

Turkish bread, treated as sacred and eaten with nearly every meal. The most common form is a large, crusty loaf (somun) with a soft, airy interior, baked in wood-fired or gas ovens. Regional varieties include the thinner, crispier bazlama and the sesame-topped susamlı ekmek.

🇬🇷Greece

Elenia

Ελένια

A Cretan Christmas bread of sweet enriched dough rolled into ropes and coiled, glazed with sesame and honey, baked only in the weeks before the feast.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

English Muffin

A small, round, flat yeasted bread baked on a griddle, split with a fork and toasted, served buttered for breakfast or as the base for eggs Benedict.

🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea

Envueltos

Starchy doughs from cassava or plantain, sometimes mixed with ground fish and chili, shaped into oblongs, wrapped in banana leaves, and boiled; a portable accompaniment to sauces and stews.

🇪🇷Eritrea

Eritrean Himbasha

Himbasha

Eritrean celebration bread, slightly sweet and flavored with cardamom; the Eritrean variant is distinguished by raisins; wheel-shaped with a decorative radial pattern pressed into the top; served at weddings, Christmas, and coffee ceremonies.

🇪🇷Asmara, Eritrea

Eritrean Panettone

Panettone

Italian sweet bread adopted into Eritrean cuisine; commonly served with tea or during the coffee ceremony; eaten in the days leading up to Christmas; a legacy of Italian colonization; found in bakeries across Asmara.

🇦🇺Australia

Fairy Bread

Fairy bread is buttered white bread covered with colourful hundreds and thousands, cut into triangles for children’s parties.

🇹🇻Outer Islands (Nanumea / Nanumaga / Niutao / Nui / Vaitupu / Nukufetau / Nukulaelae / Niulakita), Tuvalu

Fakapulu

Tuvaluan fakapulu is a dense bread made from flour, toddy, and coconut, wrapped in pandanus leaves and cooked for portable storage.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Farmer's Bread

Bauernbrot

A large, rustic sourdough loaf with a dark, flour-dusted crust and a dense, chewy crumb, baked across German-speaking Switzerland.

🇫🇴Faroe Islands

Faroese Pan Bread

Drýlur

A traditional Faroese baked bread; made from a simple rye- and wheat-based dough; lightly pan-fried and then baked in the oven; results in a dense, rustic loaf; a traditional accompaniment to Faroese meals; a staple of the Faroese diet.

🇱🇾Libya

Fettat

Torn dry bread soaked in meat broth and layered with pieces of lamb and vegetables until the bread swells.

🇵🇭Philippines

Filipino Brioche

Ensaymada

A sweet, brioche-like bread topped with butter, sugar, and grated cheese, a Spanish-influenced merienda.

🇵🇹Centro, Portugal

Fogaça da Feira

Fogaça da Feira is a sweet regional bread shaped like a tall tower, scented with cinnamon and baked with a bronzed crust.

🇵🇹Portugal

Folar da Páscoa

Sweet Easter bread enriched with eggs, sugar and sometimes cinnamon or fennel, baked for the Easter table.

🇵🇹Northern Portugal, Portugal

Folar de Chaves

Folar de Chaves is a northern savory bread layered with cured pork and sausage, baked until the dough is rich and golden.

🇵🇹Algarve, Portugal

Folar de Olhão

Folar de Olhão is a sweet Algarve bread built from thin layered dough, butter, sugar, and cinnamon, baked into a sticky spiral.

🇵🇹Northern Portugal, Portugal

Folar de Valpaços

Folar de Valpaços is a Trás-os-Montes savory bread packed with local pork and sausages, baked into a rich festive loaf.

🇺🇸United States

Fool's Gold Loaf

A legend of a sandwich: a hollowed loaf stuffed with peanut butter, bacon, and grape jelly, once served to Elvis Presley.

🇳🇱Netherlands

French Toast

Wentelteefjes

Bread dipped in egg mixture and fried, served with sugar and cinnamon, a traditional Dutch breakfast or dessert.

🇬🇩Grenada

Fried Bake

Round of leavened dough fried until it puffs hollow, split and filled with saltfish, cheese or smoked herring.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Fried Dumpling

Johnny cake

Round of flour dough fried until it puffs and browns, split and filled with saltfish, callaloo or fried plantain for breakfast.

🇱🇹Lithuania

Fried Garlic Bread

Kepta duona

Thin strips of dark rye bread fried until crisp and rubbed with garlic, often topped with cheese or mayonnaise.

🇳🇿New Zealand

Fry Bread

Parāoa parai

Yeasted dough flattened and shallow-fried until puffed and golden, eaten with butter, golden syrup or a filling.

🇨🇦Canada

Frybread

Fried dough bread, Indigenous adaptation similar to bannock, served with savory or sweet toppings.

🇨🇴Colombia

Garulla

A Colombian corn bread roll from the Caribbean coast, made with fresh corn and baked in a leaf. Soft and slightly sweet, it is a regional breakfast bread.