Bread and confectionery
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Bread and confectionery are foodstuffs based on flour and sugar. While bread is usually low-cost staple food, confectionery is a sweet snack or dessert, sometimes made into an advanced art. There are sweetened breads and cakes which can fit in both these categories.
Sandwiches and similar bread dishes are easy to carry, and are a classic in camping food.
Chocolate is an ingredient with interesting history on its own.
All sorrows are less with bread.
AfricaMorocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya produce fantastic sweets that are in many instances quite distinct from the phyllo dough-based desserts of the Levant.
North AmericaAs the country with the maple leaf flag, maple syrup is the signature ingredient in most recognizably Canadian confectionery., but without the pecans.
South AmericaMignoncitos are popular, crusty, white bread rolls with a fluffy texture inside that is perfect for sopping up sauce or spreading with butter.
AsiaIn China, bread is less present, though in Northern China, very good flatbread is available from vendors who make it on griddles, and is particularly associated with the Muslim community.
EuropeVienna is so famous for its pastries that even the French, with their different and comparably great pastries, call pastries in general viennoiserie.
ReligionsVery rich and often quite expensive mooncakes are eaten and given as presents around the time of the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. Mooncakes come in a great number of varieties.
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- Photo: mekfouldji abdelkrim from BLIDA, ALGERIE, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons