🍽️ Food & Cuisine of the Americas Quiz
Trace a dish back to the country it comes from.
A signature dish for each of the 36 countries in the Americas — the ones a country is best known for abroad, listed below.
Food & Cuisine of the Americas Quiz at a glance
- Dishes, one per country
- 36
- Subregions covered
- 4
- Island nations among them
- 12
Food & Cuisine against real people, on the same questions — no account needed. New food & cuisine rooms start every 5 minutes, rotating through regions.
Signature dishes of Americas
| Country | Known for |
|---|---|
| Antigua and Barbuda | Saltfish and bakes |
| Argentina | Asado |
| Bahamas | Rice and peas |
| Barbados | Cou-cou and flying fish |
| Belize | Rice bowl belizean-style |
| Bolivia | Salteñas |
| Brazil | Feijoada |
| Canada | Poutine |
| Chile | Empanada de pino |
| Colombia | Bandeja paisa |
| Costa Rica | Gallo pinto |
| Cuba | Ropa vieja |
| Curaçao | Curaçao stoba |
| Dominica | Mountain chicken |
| Dominican Republic | La bandera |
| Ecuador | Encebollado |
| El Salvador | Pupusa |
| Grenada | National bake and cod |
| Guatemala | Pepián |
| Guyana | Pepper pot |
| Haiti | Griot |
| Honduras | Baleada |
| Jamaica | Jerk chicken |
| Mexico | Tacos |
| Nicaragua | Nacatamal |
| Panama | Sancocho |
| Paraguay | Sopa paraguaya |
| Peru | Ceviche |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | Souse |
| Saint Lucia | Green fig and saltfish |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Roasted breadfruit |
| Suriname | Roti with curry |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Callaloo |
| United States | Cheeseburger |
| Uruguay | Chivito |
| Venezuela | Arepa |
About the Food & Cuisine of the Americas quiz
- How many countries are in the the Americas quiz?
- 36 — every country in the Americas with the data this quiz needs. Questions are drawn fresh from that pool each round, so no two rounds repeat.
- Why are some dishes in the Americas easy to confuse?
- Because neighbours share ingredients and history. the Americas spans 4 subregions — Caribbean, South America, Central America, North America. Within a subregion the near-misses cluster; across 36 countries the outliers are the ones with 12 island cuisines shaped by what grows there and what arrived by sea.
- How much of the Americas does one dish have to stand for?
- A lot: 1,046,170,342 people live across these 36 countries, and each gets a single entry. The dish chosen is the one the country is best known for outside its own borders, not the one eaten most.
- How many dishes are in the the Americas food quiz?
- 36, one per country. The table above is the full list, so it doubles as the answer key.
- Is one dish really enough to represent a country?
- No — every one of these countries has a far broader cuisine. The quiz uses the single dish most widely associated with each country internationally, which is what makes it guessable.