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🇩🇰Denmark

Biksemad

A Danish hash of diced beef, potatoes, and onions, pan-fried and topped with a fried egg and pickles

🇱🇹Lithuania

Bilberries

Šilauogės

Wild forest bilberries used in Lithuanian pies, dumplings and preserves.

🇷🇴Romania

Bilberry Liqueur

Afinată

Wild bilberries picked in the mountains and steeped in spirit with sugar into a dark purple liqueur.

🇸🇪Sweden

Bilberry Soup

Blåbärssoppa

Sweet fruit soup made from wild bilberries, served hot or cold, especially during the Vasaloppet ski race.

🇨🇲Cameroon

Bili-Bili

Bil-bil

Sorghum or millet beer brewed in clay pots in the north and drunk warm and cloudy from calabashes at communal gatherings.

🇸🇨Seychelles

Bilimbi

Bilenbi

Cucumber-like tart fruit grown across Seychelles; used in shark chutney, bouyon blan, and other dishes for its sour juice; squeezed for its acidic juice; a key ingredient in satini reken; the bilimbi's tartness is essential to Seychellois cuisine.

🇫🇷Paris, France

Billi bi

Billi bi is a creamy Parisian mussel soup built on mussel liquor, white wine, cream, and aromatic vegetables.

🇵🇼Palau

Billum

Billum is a Palauan tapioca-and-coconut pudding set into a soft, sliceable sweet; the native starch gives it a gently elastic texture.

🇦🇺Australia

Billy Tea

Billy tea is black tea brewed in a metal billy over a campfire, with smoke, strong tannin, and a simple bush setting.

🇬🇶Bioko (Island / Malabo), Equatorial Guinea

Bilola

Large sea snails grilled on skewers or cooked in garlic-chili oil; more popular on Bioko Island than on the mainland; a coastal delicacy.

🇿🇦South Africa

Biltong

Umncweba

South Africa's most loved snack: dried, cured, and spiced meat (beef, game, or ostrich) with coriander and salt

🇺🇦Ukraine

Bilyi Borshch

Білий борщ

White borscht of soured wheat bran or whey with potato and sausage, the Christmas-Eve counterpart to ruby borshch.

🇧🇿Southern Belize, Belize

Bimacacule

Rice cooked slowly with coconut milk, sugar and spice until it goes sticky and holds a spoon, a Garifuna sweet made for celebrations.

🇧🇳Brunei

Binjai Sauce

Cacah Binjai

A sour-spicy binjai relish served as a dipping sauce with ambuyat. Wild-mango-like binjai supplies the sharp fruitiness; chilli and aromatics bring the heat.

🇾🇪Yemen

Bint al-Sahn

Twenty or more paper-thin layers of dough brushed with ghee and baked into a golden dome, then flooded with black honey and nigella seeds.

🇲🇽Guadalajara, Mexico

Bionico

A Guadalajara fruit dessert: chopped fresh fruit in a sweetened cream with granola, coconut, and raisins.

🇪🇪Estonia

Birch Ale

Kaseõlu

Craft beer brewed with birch leaves, a unique Estonian specialty with subtle birch flavor.

🇺🇸United States

Birch Beer

A sweet, carbonated soft drink flavored with birch bark or birch oil, similar to root beer but brighter.

🇪🇪Estonia

Birch Sap

Kasemahl

Fresh birch sap collected in spring, sometimes fermented into sour beverage, a traditional Seto region drink.

🇱🇻Latvia

Birch Sap Lemonade

Bērzu sulas limonāde

Sparkling beverage made from fermented birch sap, a modern take on the traditional spring drink.

🇨🇦Canada

Birch syrup

A Canadian and northern-US syrup tapped from birch trees, thinner and darker than maple with a distinct wintergreen note.

🇨🇭Zurich, Switzerland

Bircher Muesli

Birchermüesli

Rolled oats soaked overnight in milk or juice with grated apple, lemon, condensed milk and nuts, eaten cold.

🇱🇹Lithuania

Bird's Milk Cake

Птичье молоко

Bird's Milk Cake is a Soviet-era chocolate-covered soufflé cake with airy filling and thin sponge layers.

🇧🇩Sylhet Division, Bangladesh

Birin Rice

বিরইন চাল

Red-and-white sticky rice grown only in the Sylhet region, used for the region's steamed and roasted rice cakes.

🇲🇽Jalisco, Mexico

Birria

A savory, chile-laced stew of goat or beef, roasted or braised until tender and served with corn tortillas, onion, cilantro, and lime.

🇧🇮Burundi

Birunge

A dish of bitter leafy greens — taro leaves and wild herbs (isogi) — cooked with butter and served during family celebrations; the bitterness is deliberate and prized, balanced by the richness of the fat.

🇹🇿Tanzania

Biryani ya Zanzibar

Zanzibari biryani layered with spiced rice, meat, potatoes and fried onions for celebrations.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Birz

ብርዝ

A sweet non-alcoholic Ethiopian drink of honey blended into water. Sometimes lightly fermented for a day or two — but stopped well before any alcohol develops. The kid-friendly cousin of tej.

🇲🇻Maldives

Bis Keemiya

ބިސް ކީމިޔާ

Cross between a samosa and a spring roll, filled with tuna, hardboiled egg, sliced onion, and sautéed cabbage — a light, crispy Maldivian short eat.

🇲🇻Maldives

Bis Riha

ބިސް ރިހަ

Maldivian boiled egg curry — hardboiled eggs simmered in a spiced coconut milk gravy with onion, curry leaves, and chili, eaten with roshi or rice.

🇮🇹Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy

Bisato in speo

In Friuli, Bisato in speo is eel roasted on a spit until browned, with garlic and herbs for serving.

🇮🇹Venice, Italy

Bisato in umido

In Venice, Bisato in umido is eel gently stewed with tomato, garlic, and herbs until tender.

🇧🇷Minas Gerais, Brazil

Biscoito de Polvilho

Light, crispy baked rings made from tapioca starch, oil, and salt, originating in Minas Gerais, with a distinctive crunch and airy texture.

🇺🇸United States

Biscuits and Gravy

Biscuits ’n’ Gravy

Soft, flaky Southern biscuits smothered in a creamy sausage gravy, a quintessential American breakfast.

🇮🇳Karnataka, India

Bisi Bele Bath

ಬಿಸಿ ಬೇಳೆ ಭಾತ್

A spicy, tangy rice and lentil dish from Karnataka cooked with vegetables and a special spice powder. It is served with boondi and ghee.

🇮🇹Veneto, Italy

Bisi in tecia

Bisi in tecia is a named Italian vegetable from Veneto, built around its defining ingredient and cooked in a specific local style; the texture, seasoning, and serving form distinguish the dish.