Breads & Pastries

Naan

Pillowy leavened flatbread blistered in a tandoor.

📍 Northern India

Pão de Queijo

Chewy, cheesy tapioca-flour rolls — naturally gluten-free.

📍 Minas Gerais

Paratha

Flaky layered flatbread, often stuffed with potato.

📍 Northern India

Pictou County Pizza

Hailing from Canada, Pictou County Pizza is a much-loved pizza.

Pide

Boat-shaped flatbread baked with savoury toppings.

📍 Black Sea

Pie Tee

Pie Tee counts among the traditional food of Malaysia, a savoury pastry locals hold dear.

Roti Canai

Flaky stretched flatbread served with dhal and curry.

📍 Nationwide

Sfogliatella

Crisp shell-shaped pastry filled with sweet ricotta.

📍 Naples

Shoofly Pie

Shoofly Pie counts among the traditional food of the United States, a sweet pie locals hold dear.

Spanakopita

Flaky filo pie filled with spinach and feta.

📍 Nationwide

Tarte Flambée

Thin Alsatian flatbread with crème fraîche, onion and bacon.

📍 Alsace

Almojábana

Almojábana is a beloved bread, traditional to Colombia.

Anpan

Soft sweet bun filled with red-bean paste.

📍 Nationwide

Banana Bread

Moist sweet loaf made from very ripe bananas.

📍 Nationwide

Banitsa

Coiled filo pastry filled with white cheese and egg.

📍 Nationwide

Biscuits and Gravy

Flaky buttermilk biscuits under creamy sausage gravy.

📍 Southern US

Börek

Layered filo pastry filled with cheese, meat or spinach.

📍 Nationwide

Bougatsa

Filo pastry filled with semolina custard or cheese.

📍 Thessaloniki

Bourekas

Flaky filled puff-pastry parcels, savoury and golden.

📍 Nationwide

California Sourdough Bread

Hailing from the United States, California Sourdough Bread is a much-loved bread.

Castella

Springy honey sponge cake brought by Portuguese traders.

📍 Nagasaki

Chipa

Chewy cassava-and-cheese bread rings.

📍 Nationwide

Ensaimada

Coiled Mallorcan pastry dusted with icing sugar.

📍 Mallorca

Feteer Meshaltet

Many-layered flaky pastry, sweet or savoury.

📍 Nationwide