From grain to great bread.
Explore breads, flours, grains, and the regional traditions behind them. Follow ingredients into recipes and learn what changes with the seasons.
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Tunisia: breads, grains & baking
Khobz tabouna—traditional oven-baked bread, not a flat or pita-like bread.
Turkmenistan: breads, grains & baking
Turkmen bread is prepared differently from other breads in the region in thick, round disc-shaped loaves baked in a traditional tamdyr clay oven.
Tuvalu: breads, grains & baking
The traditional foods eaten in Tuvalu are pulaka, taro, bananas, breadfruit and coconut.
Türkiye: yufka and shared flatbread traditions
Explore the communal culture of flatbread-making recognized by UNESCO across Türkiye and neighboring countries.
Uganda: breads, grains & baking
Mugaati n'amaggi (bread and eggs)—Originally an Arab dish, it consists of wheat dough spread into a thin pancake, filled with minced meat and raw egg, and then folded into a neat parcel, which is fried on a skillet or hotplate.
Ukraine: breads, grains & baking
Savory pampushky: soft, fluffy bread portions, or deep-fried pieces of dough, topped with garlic butter.
United Arab Emirates: breads, grains & baking
Lugaimat, also called luqaimat, is an Emirati dessert described in the country guide.
Uruguay: breads, grains & baking
Spanish influences are abundant: desserts like churros (cylinders of pastry, usually fried, sometimes filled with dulce de leche), flan, ensaimadas (Catalan sweet bread), and alfajores were all brought from Spain.
Uzbekistan: breads, grains & baking
Noni toki – a crispy flat bread that is baked on the back of a wok.
Vanuatu: breads, grains & baking
The migrated populations tended to live in the capitals of Vanuatu, such as Port Vila and Luganville, and hence introduced foreign foods such as French bread, Vietnamese spring rolls known as nems, and fried doughnuts, known as gateau huit (deep-fried and shaped into the number '8').
Vatican City: pizza at the Museums
The Vatican Museums document Neapolitan pizza in their dining offer. Its presence is a serving-location association, not a claim of Vatican origin.
Venezuela: breads, grains & baking
Paledonias – cookies with brown sugar also called cucas or catalinas
Vietnam: breads, grains & baking
Bánh mì is just the bread, whereas thịt implies meat or stuffing.
Wheat
A grain family at the center of many bread and flour traditions.
Whole wheat flour
A flour containing the bran, germ and endosperm of the wheat berry.
Wholegrain milling
Understand what makes a grain product whole rather than refined.
Yemen: breads, grains & baking
Unleavened flatbreads are common. Ṣalūf, a flatbread made from wheat flour, is the most common of all breadstuffs.
Zambia: breads, grains & baking
Vitumbuwa (Puff-Puff), fried balls of wheat dough, are common Zambia and across Africa broadly.
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