Around the world

What each part of the world cooks with

Every ingredient in the guide is linked to the catalogued dishes that use it, and every dish to where it comes from. Pick a continent, a region or one of 60 countries to see its ingredients, the most typical first.

Regions follow the UN’s M49 grouping. The dish catalogue is uneven, so some countries are better covered than others.

The Americas

118 ingredients · 119 dishes

All of The Americas →

Photo credits for this page (16)

Table salt: Dubravko Sorić SoraZG on Flickr · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Coconut milk: Meursault2004 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Shallot: HaJunkiyada · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Garlic: Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Palm oil: DromoTetteh · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Yam: Fumikas Sagisavas · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Crayfish: JIP · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cooking banana: Vis M · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Potato: McKay Savage from London, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sour cream: jules · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Bread: Bake Across Europe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Olive oil: Jacek Halicki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Corn tortilla: Ll1324 · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wheat tortilla: Ocdp · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Tortilla: Erik Cleves Kristensen · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Gravy: Scott Veg · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

What each part of the world cooks with

Asia

Africa

Europe

The Americas