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Golden baked Argentine empanadas with crimped edges on a tray.
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  1. Argentina10 recipesFire, beef, and an unreasonable amount of dulce de leche
  2. Cuba10 recipesA cuisine cooked in two countries at once
  3. United States10 recipesFifty regional cuisines wearing one flag
  4. Puerto Rico10 recipesWhere a third of the cooking starts at a grater
  5. Brazil10 recipesTen dishes, and no two from the same Brazil
  6. Mexico10 recipesCorn, chilli, and the deepest bench in the hemisphere
  7. Canada10 recipesCold-weather cooking and an unexpected amount of syrup
  8. Guatemala10 recipesMaya foundations under Spanish sauces
  9. Costa Rica10 recipesSweet sofritos, not chilli heat, and a bottle of Lizano on every table
  10. El Salvador10 recipesCurtido on everything, hierbabuena in everything else
  11. Panama10 recipesTwo oceans, an isthmus, and culantro in almost everything
  12. Honduras10 recipesRed silk beans, a Garífuna coast, and cured beef from the cattle country
  13. Nicaragua10 recipesSour orange, corn in four states, and steam doing the work
  14. Belize10 recipesCoconut rice and beans, red recado, and a Garifuna fish pot on the coast
  15. Jamaica10 recipesSmoke, scotch bonnet, and pimento wood
  16. Dominican Republic10 recipesSugar burnt on purpose, and the crust at the bottom of the pot
  17. Haiti10 recipesÉpice, sour orange, and a Scotch bonnet that is never punctured
  18. Trinidad and Tobago10 recipesIndian indenture, African browning, and a Scotch bonnet that stays whole
  19. The Bahamas10 recipesConch three ways, peas n' rice, and a guava duff steamed in a cloth
  20. Peru10 recipesThe most decorated food country on the continent, and it knows it
  21. Colombia10 recipesRegional cooking so distinct the country barely agrees on a dish
  22. Chile10 recipesPinned between the Andes and the Humboldt Current, and it tastes like it
  23. Uruguay10 recipesArgentina's neighbour, and its fiercest rival at the grill
  24. Bolivia10 recipesFour thousand metres up, and the potatoes are freeze-dried
  25. Venezuela10 recipesThe arepa, split open and filled a hundred ways
  26. Ecuador10 recipesCoast, mountain, and jungle in one small country
  27. Paraguay10 recipesCassava and maize, two Indigenous American staples, in almost everything
  28. Guyana10 recipesCassareep, wiri wiri and a Christmas pot that never goes cold
  29. Suriname10 recipesJavanese warungs, Hindustani roti and a Creole pot, on one street
  30. French Guiana10 recipesAwara palm, roucou and a court-bouillon that bites
  31. Falkland Islands10 recipesCamp mutton, smoko baking and a fish pie at the edge of the South Atlantic

The dishes people name first when asked what their country eats — the ones cooked on Sundays, argued over online, and defended to strangers. Researched widely, documented with care, and kitchen-tested country by country as the atlas grows. Our method →

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