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🇧🇯Centre (Abomey / Collines / Zou), Benin

Agoun

Pounded yam paste; celebrated annually on August 15th in Savalou; elastic, smooth texture; served with sauce arachide, goussi, or gombo; a central/northern Benin festive dish.

🇬🇷Greece

Agoureleo Chalkidikis

Αγουρέλαιο Χαλκιδικής

An early-harvest oil pressed from unripe (agourelaio) Chalkidiki olives, lower yield but sharply grassy and aromatic, bottled as a premium Greek oil.

🇬🇷Peloponnese, Greece

Agouromanako

Αγούρωμανακο

Small bitter-cured green olives picked unripe, cracked and rinsed for days to draw out the bitterness, then marinated with garlic, lemon and wild fennel.

🇮🇳Agra, India

Agra petha

आगरा पेठा

Ash gourd is cut, simmered in sugar syrup, and set into translucent pieces in Agra's famed confection.

🇬🇵Guadeloupe

Agricultural Rum

Rhum Agricole

The finest Caribbean rum style; made from fresh sugarcane juice, not molasses; Guadeloupe has 9 working rum agricole distilleries; may be white, aged, or dark; many have won national and international competitions; the rhum agricole that is Guadeloupe's pride.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Agrio de Naranja

A Dominican condiment of sour orange juice, lime, garlic, and hot sauce, served with sancocho. A tangy, acidic sauce that cuts the richness of the stew.

🇨🇾Cyprus

Agros Rose Syrup

Τριαντάφυλλο Αγρού

Damask rose petals from the mountain village of Agros distilled and cooked into a dark pink cordial and rosewater.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Agua de Pana

A Dominican drink of breadfruit (pana) boiled and blended with milk, sugar, and cinnamon, served cold. A rich, tropical, starchy beverage, especially in the Cibao.

🇨🇴Colombia

Agua de Panela

A Colombian drink of panela dissolved in water, served hot with cheese and bread for breakfast in the highlands. The everyday Andean beverage.

🇨🇷Limón, Costa Rica

Agua de Sapo

Caribbean drink with panela (unrefined sugar), ginger, and lime, called 'toad water' for its color, refreshing and spicy.

🇲🇽Sinaloa, Mexico

Aguachile

Fresh raw shrimp or fish marinated in lime, chiles, and cucumber, served icy cold with tostadas along the Pacific coast.

🇵🇪Peru

Aguadito de Pollo

Chicken and rice soup with cilantro, ají, corn, and peas. A vibrant green, hearty soup often served at celebrations.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Aguaji

Aguají

A Dominican soup of green plantains and salt herring or fish, cooked into a thick, savory broth.

🇵🇪Loreto, Peru

Aguajina

A Loreto fruit drink made from aguaje pulp, water and sugar.

🇵🇹Madeira, Portugal

Aguardente de cana

Madeiran sugarcane spirit; base for poncha.

🇦🇷Argentina

Aguardiente

An Argentine spirit distilled from sugarcane or grapes, drunk neat or in cocktails in the northwest. A strong, clear liquor, often homemade in the Andean provinces.

🇨🇴Colombia

Aguardiente Colombiano

Aguardiente

Anise-flavoured sugarcane spirit around 29% ABV, distilled in the Andean region and drunk ice-cold in shot glasses passed round the table. Colombia's default celebration bottle, toasted with "¡salud!" until the freezer stock runs dry.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Aguayí

Agua'i

Native sapotaceous fruit of the Paraguayan Atlantic forest, yellow-skinned and sticky-sweet around two flat seeds, with a tart finish that earned it the name agua'i ('bitter water').

🇰🇷Changwon, South Korea

Agujjim

아구찜

Agujjim, monkfish braised with bean sprouts in a thick chilli sauce, is a named regional dish associated with Changwon's Masan restaurant street.

🇳🇴Norway

Agurksalat

Cucumber salad, a ubiquitous everyday side.

🇩🇪Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Ahr

Ahr is a German wine region known for dry Spätburgunder with bright red fruit, mineral acidity and delicate oak.

🇲🇽Mexico

Ahuatle

An Aztec-era delicacy of tiny aquatic fly eggs, gathered from lake reeds, toasted and eaten like caviar.

🇮🇳Bihar, India

Ahuna (Champaran meat)

अहूना

Mutton is marinated with onion, garlic, and whole spices, then slow-cooked in a sealed earthen pot in Bihar.

🇨🇴Colombia

Ahuyama

Colombian butternut squash (ahuyama), used in soups, stews, and purees nationwide. A staple orange-fleshed squash of the Andean and coastal cuisine.

🇪🇬Egypt

Ahwa (Egyptian Coffee)

قهوة

Finely ground coffee brewed in a small cezve, often with cardamom, served in tiny cups as Egypt's everyday social coffee.

🇬🇷Greece

Aidini

Αηδίνι

A white grape of the Aegean islands, chiefly Lesbos, made into dry and semi-sweet wines with citrus and stone-fruit character.

🇵🇬Papua New Guinea

Aigir

Hot-stone cooking method from East New Britain — hot rocks dropped into a pot of coconut milk with chicken, plantains, sweet potatoes, leafy greens, and ginger, cooked in 30 minutes.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Ain Sbaniouria

عين صبنورية

A Tunisian meat roll of spiced minced meat stuffed with hard-boiled eggs, simmered in a tomato sauce, named 'Spanish eye' for its appearance.

🇫🇷Provence, France

Aioli

Aïoli

Provencal garlic mayonnaise made with olive oil, served with vegetables and fish.

🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan

Airag

Айраг

Mare's milk fermented in a leather or plastic churn and stirred thousands of times, ending mildly alcoholic, fizzy and sharply sour.

🇧🇴Bolivia

Airampo

A Bolivian red cactus fruit used as a natural colorant in desserts and drinks

🇲🇾Malaysia

Ais Kacang

Ice Kacang

Shaved ice with sweet corn, red beans, grass jelly, syrup.

🇪🇬Egypt

Aish Baladi

عيش بلدي

Egypt's round whole-wheat baladi bread, fermented and baked hot so it puffs into a pocket for beans, cheese and stews.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Aish el Saraya

عيش السرايا

Toasted bread soaked in sugar syrup, layered under ashta or cream and finished with pistachios — a syrup-soaked Egyptian dessert.

🇹🇼Taiwan

Aiyu Jelly

愛玉

Jelly set by washing the seeds of a Taiwanese fig in water, served cold with lemon and sugar syrup.

🇫🇷Corsica, France

Ajaccio Blanc

Ajaccio Blanc is a named French wine appellation associated with France, defined by its terroir and regulated style.