Breads

🇮🇸Iceland

Geothermal Rye Bread

Hverabrauð

Dark rye bread slow-baked underground in hot springs, a uniquely Icelandic method.

🇺🇸United States

Graham Bread

A dense, sweet yeast bread made with graham flour, named for health reformer Sylvester Graham.

🇱🇸Lesotho

Green Mealie Bread

Monepla oa Poone e Ncha

A seasonal maize bread made from fresh green mealies (young corn) in autumn, mixed into a dough and baked or steamed. Soft, sweet, and eaten as a snack or side in the highlands.

🇬🇩Grenada

Grenadian Fry Bake

Fry Bake

Fried bread dough, golden brown and puffy; the standard breakfast bread of Grenada; served with saltfish souse, cheese, sausage, or shark

🇮🇹Piedmont, Italy

Grissini

Long, thin, crisp breadsticks from Turin, traditionally hand-pulled (rubatà) and baked dry. Often wrapped in prosciutto or served alongside antipasti.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Grittibänz

A sweet enriched dough shaped into a little man with raisin eyes, baked for St Nicholas Day in early December.

🇳🇴Norway

Grovbrod

Grovbrød

Coarse whole-grain brown bread.

🇪🇨Ecuador

Guaguas de Pan

Sweet bread dolls filled with grape jelly or dulce de leche, shaped like children and decorated for Ecuador's Dia de los Difuntos. Eaten with colada morada.

🇬🇬Guernsey

Guernsey Biscuits

Galettes

Not biscuits in the usual sense, but savory rolls with firm crust and fluffy soft centre; made with plain flour, yeast, salt, Guernsey butter, warm Guernsey milk, and sugar; can be filled with local delicacies like crab, beef, or local cheese; a traditional bread unique to Guernsey.

🇬🇬Guernsey

Guernsey Gâche

Gâche

Traditional fruit bread/tea loaf made with raisins, sultanas, butter, mixed peel, flour, milk, yeast, and brown sugar; more like a fruit bread than a cake despite the name; earliest written recipes from 18th century; served toasted with Guernsey butter for afternoon tea; each family has their own variation; the signature baked good of Guernsey.

🇨🇳Shaanxi, China

Guokui Flatbread

锅盔

Guokui is a thin wheat cake baked against a drum oven wall, often filled with meat or spices in Shaanxi street stalls.

🇬🇪Guria, Georgia

Gurian Khachapuri

Გურული ხაჭაპური

A crescent-shaped folded cheese bread with hard-boiled egg inside the filling, made for Christmas Eve. The same crescent is also called Guruli Gvezeli, especially around Christmas.

🇳🇵Kathmandu, Nepal

Gwaramari

ग्वारामरी

Seasoned wheat dough is shaped into rough rounds and fried until puffed, crisp outside, and soft within in Kathmandu.

🇸🇪Sweden

Gáhkku

Gáhkku is a bread or flatbread from Norrbotten County, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇨🇱Chile

Hallulla

Round flat roll with soft texture and slightly sweet flavor, made with vegetable shortening, popular for sandwiches.

🇵🇰Pakistan

Halwa Puri

حلوہ پوری

Weekend breakfast plate of puffed fried bread with semolina halwa, spiced chickpeas and a potato curry, all eaten together.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Hard Dough Bread

Hardo bread

Dense, slightly sweet white loaf with a fine tight crumb, sold in a waxed wrapper and eaten with jerk, saltfish and cheese.

🇨🇾Cyprus

Hellimli

Χαλλουμωτή

Bread or cake dough studded with chunks of halloumi and dried mint, baked until the cheese softens inside.

🇪🇷Eritrea

Himbasha

ህምባሻ

A lightly sweetened Ethiopian celebration bread, often flavored with cardamom and raisins. Smaller and softer than dabo, it's sliced and served at weddings, holidays and coffee ceremonies.

🇺🇸United States

Hoagie Roll

The long, crusty Italian bread roll used for Philadelphia hoagies.

🇫🇮Finland

Hole Bread

Reikäleipä

Traditional Western Finnish rye bread with a hole in center, historically dried on poles for winter storage.

🇴🇲Oman

Honeycomb Bread

خلية النحل

Khaliat Nahal is sweet yeasted bread arranged in a honeycomb pattern, filled with cheese, and drizzled with syrup.

🇭🇰Hong Kong

Hong Kong French Toast

Sai Do Si

Thick peanut-butter sandwiches dipped in egg batter, deep-fried and flooded with golden syrup and butter.

🇺🇸United States

Hot Water Corn Bread

A Southern cornbread made by scalding cornmeal with boiling water, then frying into crisp cakes.

🇸🇪Gothenburg, Sweden

Hönö Bread

Hönökaka

Soft white pricked flatbread from Hönö island in Gothenburg archipelago, traditionally baked by fishing families.

🇬🇪Imereti, Georgia

Imeretian Khachapuri

Იმერული ხაჭაპური

A flat round bread with young sour cheese sealed inside the dough and cooked on a griddle, cut into wedges like a pie.

🇮🇪Connacht, Ireland

Irish Soda Bread

Arán sóide

An Irish quick bread with flour, buttermilk, baking soda, and salt, a daily and essential staple.

🇮🇱Israel

Jachnun

ג'חנון

Yemenite rolled dough baked overnight at low heat until it turns brown and dense, served on Shabbat morning with grated tomato, hard-boiled egg and schug.

🇭🇷Croatia

Jam-Filled Buns

Buhtla

In Croatia, Jam-Filled Buns is soft yeast bun filled with plum or apricot jam.

🇲🇭Marshall Islands

Jebijeb

Grated coconut meat mixed with flour, sugar, and yeast, shaped into balls, and baked; a Marshallese coconut bread; a simple, sweet bread that showcases the abundance of coconut; often served snack and breakfast item; the grated coconut gives a chewy, moist texture.

🇳🇴Norway

Julekake (Christmas Bread)

Julekake

A Norwegian sweet Christmas bread with cardamom, raisins, and candied fruit, sliced and served with butter or brunost. A national and Christmas stapley bread, a sweet and aromatic loaf, a Christmas tradition.

🇸🇾Syria

Ka'ak

كعك

Sesame-crusted bread rings sold from barrows, torn open and filled with za'atar or cheese.

🇯🇴Amman, Jordan

Ka'ak Asawer

كعك أساور

Sesame-crusted bread rings sold by the armful from barrows on the street, eaten torn open with a sachet of za'atar.

🇱🇧Beirut, Lebanon

Kaak

كعك

A handbag-shaped sesame bread ring sold from glass carts, split and filled with thyme spice, cheese or chocolate spread.

🇱🇾Libya

Kaak Malih

A savoury Libyan ring bread baked with sesame and served with cheese, eggs, or tea.

🇹🇻Funafuti, Tuvalu

Kafalu

Kafalu is a soft sweet bread or bun sold at Funafuti markets, made from flour with coconut or sugar and baked until lightly browned.