Breads

🇨🇴Colombia

Mogolla

A rustic Colombian wheat-flour bread roll, round and dense, used for sandwiches or eaten with butter and hot chocolate. A traditional bakery staple of the highlands.

🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

Mollete

Soft Andalusian bread roll, often split for breakfast.

🇬🇹Guatemala

Molletes

A Guatemalan sweet bread stuffed with custard, fried and soaked in panela-rum syrup, a Day of the Dead and Lenten classic

🇨🇦Montreal, Canada

Montreal Bagel

Bagel de Montréal

Hand-rolled, wood-fired bagels boiled in honey water, smaller, sweeter, and denser than New York style.

🇲🇸Montserrat

Montserrat Bakes

Bakes

Smaller fried bread dumplings, similar to Johnny cakes but smaller in size; often served with saltfish; a staple accompaniment in Montserrat cuisine; a traditional Caribbean fried bread.

🇲🇸Montserrat

Montserrat Johnny Cakes

Johnny Cakes

Rounded fried staples similar in size and shape to dumplings; called 'muffins' in Montserrat; deep-fried or baked fluffy, golden-brown bread rounds; a saltfish breakfast or fish fry is almost considered worthless without these accompaniments; sometimes swapped out for bakes which are smaller but just as delicious; a staple of Montserrat cuisine.

🇲🇸Montserrat

Montserrat Lard Bread

Lard Bread

Bread made with rich lard; has a distinct texture and taste that sets it apart from ordinary bread; available from local bakeries in Montserrat; a traditional island baked good; particularly popular at St. Patrick's Festival.

🇲🇿Mozambique

Mozambican Pão

Pão

A short white bread roll with a crisp crust and soft inside, baked twice a day and eaten with everything.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Mrkvance

Mrkvance is a bread or flatbread from Polná, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇸🇦Al-Bahah, Saudi Arabia

Muqana

مقانة

Muqana is Al-Baha whole-wheat bread fermented and baked over hot stones with embers, then served with ghee or honey.

🇹🇷Black Sea Region, Turkey

Mısır ekmeği

Mısır ekmeği is the dense Black Sea cornbread baked in flat trays, torn hot to mop up melted butter beside hamsi and cheese.

🇦🇪United Arab Emirates

Nagash

نقاش

Sweet bread, traditional Emirati sweet bread preparation, freshly baked with proper sweetness and good texture, often served with honey or date syrup, a rare and regional Emirati sweet, heritage.

🇮🇷Iran

Nan-e Barbari

نان بربری

Thick oval loaf scored into long ridges and glazed before baking, sold hot in the morning and eaten with cheese and herbs.

🇮🇷Iran

Nan-e Gisou

نان گیسو

A sweet Persian bread baked with saffron, rosewater and a glossy sugar glaze.

🇧🇾Belarus

Narachanski Bread

Нарачанскі хлеб

Dense sourdough rye baked with malt and a little molasses, cooled on straw so the base carries its pattern, and sold in heavy round loaves.

🇬🇪Surami, Georgia

Nazuki

Ნაზუქი

A sweet bread enriched with butter, raisins, cinnamon, clove and vanilla, baked flat in a clay oven and sold hot at the roadside.

🇺🇸New York, United States

New York Bagel

New York City Bagels

A hand-rolled, boiled-then-baked bread with a chewy interior and glossy crust, traditionally topped with cream cheese and lox.

🇹🇯Tajikistan

Non

Round flatbread baked against the wall of a tandoor, stamped with a centre pattern and served with nearly every meal.

🇫🇷Normandy, France

Normandy Brioche

Fallue

Traditional Normandy brioche with an oval shape and thorny top, served with teurgoule.

🇲🇼Malawi

Nthochi

Malawian banana bread: ripe bananas mashed and mixed with flour, sugar, butter, eggs, and baking powder, baked in a rectangular tin, and cut into thick slices; a beloved teatime and market sweet.

🇰🇭Cambodia

Num Pao

នំប៉ោ

Steamed wheat flour buns filled with pork, chicken, or sweet mung bean paste, a Chinese-influenced snack sold at markets and street stalls.

🇬🇧Scotland, United Kingdom

Oatcakes

Thin dry biscuits of oatmeal and fat baked on a girdle, eaten with cheese, soup or smoked fish rather than sweet toppings.

🇵🇱Kraków, Poland

Obwarzanek Krakowski

A braided, ring-shaped bread from Kraków, boiled and baked, sprinkled with salt, poppy seeds, or sesame. A street-food icon sold from carts, with PGI protection, a Kraków symbol.

🇸🇮Slovenia

Ocvirkovica

Ocvirkovica is a Slovenian bread roll enriched with pork cracklings, baked until the fat perfumes the crumb.

🇨🇭Basel, Switzerland

Onion Bread

Bölletünne

A round, flat loaf from Basel baked with onions on top, giving the crust a sweet, caramelised flavour and a soft interior.

🇬🇵Guadeloupe

Pain Natté

A braided Guadeloupean bread, slightly sweet and enriched, its plaited shape giving it a soft, pull-apart crumb.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Palianytsia

Паляниця

The classic Ukrainian round wheat loaf scored on top so it opens like a mouth while baking; also the famous tongue-twister word.

🇲🇽Mexico

Pambazo

A soft bread roll dipped in guajillo chile sauce and griddled until crisp, then filled with papas con chorizo, lettuce, cream, and cheese.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Pampushky

Пампушки

Pampushky are Ukrainian garlic buns served with borscht; sweet versions may contain fruit.

🇨🇴Colombia

Pan Aliñado Colombiano

Pan aliñado

The everyday "seasoned bread" of Colombian bakeries: a soft wheat roll laced with anise seed and lightly sweetened dough, baked with a glazed golden top and torn apart for coffee or hot chocolate.

🇨🇱Chile

Pan Amasado

Hand-kneaded country bread traditionally baked in clay ovens, dense and flavorful, a rural Chilean staple.

🇨🇷Limón, Costa Rica

Pan Bonito

Sweet bread from Caribbean coast with coconut, spices, and dried fruit, a Limón province specialty, moist and aromatic.

🇨🇺Cuba

Pan Cubano

A Cuban bread with a crisp crust and soft interior, lard-enriched, a daily and essential staple

🇲🇽Mexico

Pan de Acambaro

A sweet bread from Acámbaro, soft and buttery.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Pan de Agua

Dominican 'water bread': a soft, round wheat-flour roll with a crispy crust, used for chimichurris and sandwiches. A bakery staple, eaten at breakfast and as a snack.

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Pan de Agua

A long, crackle-crusted white loaf baked with steam and a slit down the top, eaten the day it is made and no later.