Food World

Rice Dishes

Waakye

Rice and beans cooked with sorghum leaves, sold by the plate.

Ghana · Nationwide

Egypt · Upper Egypt / Nile Valley (Beni Suef, Minya, Asyut, Sohag)

Aish Merahrah

Sourdough-maize flatbread from Upper Egypt, leavened with fenugreek and baked on clay taboons in Nile-valley towns from Beni Suef to Sohag.

Snacks & Appetizers

Ajvar

Roasted red pepper relish, smoky and sweet.

Serbia · Balkans

Street Food

Akara

Fluffy deep-fried bean-batter fritters for breakfast.

Nigeria · Nationwide

Venezuela · South America

Arepas

Arepas are round cornmeal cakes from Venezuela and Colombia, cooked on a griddle and split open to hold fillings of cheese, meat, beans or avocado.

Syria · Levant (Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan)

Desserts & Sweets

Ballourieh

Paper-thin phyllo layers brushed with ghee and filled with sweetened cheese, soaked in orange-blossom syrup - a classic Syrian celebration pastry served at room temperature with Arabic coffee.

Blini

Thin yeasted pancakes served with sour cream or caviar.

Russia · Nationwide

Poland · Masovia, Lesser Poland, Silesia

Bobotie

Spiced minced meat baked under a savoury egg custard.

South Africa · Cape

Desserts & Sweets

Budyń

Budyń is a beloved Polish milk pudding - a smooth, trembling custard in vanilla or chocolate, sold in every grocery store and served as an afternoon snack.

Turkey · Turkey (Bursa, Gaziantep, Antakya, Istanbul, Eskişehir, Kocaeli)

Desserts & Sweets

Burma Kadayıf

Twisted Turkish shredded-dough pastry filled with walnuts and syrup, baked in shallow trays and served with tea.

Soups & Stews

Cachupa

Cachupa is Cape Verde's slow-cooked national stew of corn, beans, cassava and sweet potato, simmered with meat or fish for hours.

Cape Verde · West Africa

Sweden · Jämtland (Östersund, Krokom, Svenstavik, Hammarstrand, Jämtland county)

Calskrove

Semi-hard washed-curd cow's-milk cheese from Jämtland in central Sweden, mild and nutty, a smörgåsbord staple.

Ireland · Tipperary, Ireland (Beechmount Farm, Fethard, Cashel, Emly, Holycross)

Cheese & Dairy

Cashel Blue

Ireland's first farmhouse blue cheese from Beechmount Farm in Tipperary, creamy and mild with delicate blue veining.

China · China (Guangdong, Chaoshan, Hong Kong) and the Chinese diaspora of Southeast Asia

Chai Tow Kway

Chinese steamed rice-and-radish cake served as dim sum in southern China and stir-fried with egg, garlic and preserved radish as chai tow kway by hawkers in Singapore and Malaysia.

India · Across the Indian subcontinent - Punjab, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, the Deccan, and the entire South Asian diaspora

Chapati

Soft, blistered Indian whole-wheat flatbread cooked on a tawa, puffed over a flame and torn by hand to scoop dhal, sabzi and yogurt.

Soups & Stews

Chorba

Chorba is a North African soup of lamb or chicken, chickpeas, tomato and small pasta or vegetables, eaten to break the Ramadan fast.

Algeria · Nationwide

Spain · Spain (Extremadura - Cáceres, Badajoz, Mérida, Plasencia, Trujillo, Zafra, Don Benito)

Cordero de Extremadura

IGP suckling lamb from the Extremaduran dehesa, raised on acorns and roasted whole in wood-fired ovens.

Cheese & Dairy

Cornish Blue

Cornish Blue is a mellow blue cheese made in Cornwall from cow's milk, known for being mild, creamy and less salty than many blues.

United Kingdom · Cornwall