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Breads

The 24 best-known breads from around the world, each with a short background and where it comes from.

01
Sandwich
United Kingdom
A sandwich is a dish typically consisting variously of meat, cheese, sauces, and vegetables used as a filling between slices of bread, or placed atop a slice of bread (known as an open sandwich); or, more generally, any dish in which bread serves as a…
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02
French toast
France
French toast is a dish of sliced bread soaked in beaten eggs and often milk or cream, then pan-fried. Alternative names and variants include eggy bread, Bombay toast, gypsy toast, and poor knights (of Windsor).
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03
Baguette
France
A baguette is a long, thin type of bread commonly made from basic lean dough. The dough of the traditional baguette is defined by French law. It is distinguishable by its length and crisp crust.
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04
Chapati
India
Chapati is an unleavened flatbread originating from the Indian subcontinent. Chapatis are made of atta, a type of whole-wheat flour, mixed into dough with water. It is cooked on an iron griddle known as a tava, then puffed up over direct heat.
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05
Lavash
Armenia Kuwait
Lavash is a thin flatbread made of leavened or unleavened wheat dough, baked in a tandoor (a type of clay oven) or on a saj griddle. Some forms are sourdough fermented with dough from previous batches.
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06
Tortilla
Mexico
A tortilla is a thin, circular unleavened flatbread, originally made from corn (maize) but now also made of wheat flour.
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07
Khachapuri
Georgia
Khachapuri is a Georgian dish of cheese-filled bread. The bread is leavened and allowed to rise, molded into various shapes, and then filled in the center with a mixture of cheese, and sometimes eggs or other ingredients.
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08
Bagel
Lithuania Poland
A bagel is a bread roll originating in the Jewish communities of Poland. Bagels are traditionally made from yeasted wheat dough that is shaped by hand into a torus or ring, briefly boiled in water, and then baked.
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09
Panettone
Italy
Panettone is an Italian sweet bread and fruitcake that is associated with the city of Milan, Lombardy.
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10
Injera
Ethiopia
Injera, also known as taita, is a sour fermented pancake-like flatbread with a slightly spongy texture, traditionally made of teff flour. In Ethiopia, injera is a staple.
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11
Banana bread
United States
Banana bread is a type of sweet bread or cake made from mashed bananas. Banana bread is typically classified as a quick bread, relying on chemical leavening agents such as baking soda or baking powder rather than yeast, which allows it to be prepared without…
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12
Focaccia
Italy
Focaccia is a flat leavened oven-baked Italian bread. It is similar to a flatbread called pizza bianca (lit. 'white pizza') in Roman cuisine.
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13
Brioche
France
Brioche is a Viennoiserie of French origin whose high egg and butter content gives it a rich and tender crumb. Chef Joël Robuchon described it as "light and slightly puffy, more or less fine, according to the proportion of butter and eggs".
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14
Matzah
Egypt
Matzah, matzo, mazza, or maẓẓah is an unleavened flatbread that is part of Jewish cuisine and forms an integral element of the Passover festival, during which chametz (leavening agent and five grains deemed by halakha to be self-leavening) is forbidden.
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15
Wiener schnitzel
Austria
Wiener schnitzel, sometimes spelled Wienerschnitzel, is a type of schnitzel made of a thin, breaded, pan-fried veal cutlet. It is one of the best known specialities of Viennese cuisine, and one of the national dishes of Austria.
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16
Roti
Pakistan
Roti is a round flatbread originating from the Indian subcontinent. It is commonly consumed in many South Asian, Southeast Asian, Caribbean, East African, and Southeast African countries.
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17
Paratha
India
Paratha is a flatbread from the Indian subcontinent, consisting of a wheat dough, typically whole wheat, that is folded and rolled with ghee, forming multiple layers, and shallow fried.
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18
Gyros
Greece
Gyros, sometimes anglicized as a gyro, is a Greek dish consisting of meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie, then sliced and served wrapped or stuffed in pita bread, along with other ingredients such as tomato, onion, fried potatoes, and tzatziki.
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19
Bread roll
Austria Germany
A bread roll is a small, oblong (or round, triangular or rhomboid) individual loaf of bread, usually served with a meal and eaten plain or with butter. Rolls can be served whole or cut and filled to make a sandwich.
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20
Ciabatta
Italy
Ciabatta is an Italian white bread created in 1982 by a baker in Adria, in the region of Veneto, in response to the popularity of French baguettes.
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21
Chicken nugget
United States
A chicken nugget is a food product consisting of a small piece of deboned chicken meat that is breaded or battered, then deep-fried or baked.
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22
Arepa
Colombia Venezuela
An arepa is a type of flatbread made of ground maize dough that may be stuffed with a filling, eaten in northern parts of South America since pre-Columbian times, and notable primarily in the cuisine of Colombia and Venezuela, but also present in Bolivia,…
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23
Scone
United Kingdom
A scone ( SKON or SKOHN) is a traditional British and Irish baked good, popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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24
Breadstick
Italy
Breadsticks, also known as grissini or grissini torinesi, are generally pencil-sized sticks of crisp, dry baked bread that originated in the Italian city of Turin, Piedmont.
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