Traditional food of Bavaria: 7 dishes

• Brezel · Bread & pastry · Bavaria and Swabia

  The Brezel is a knot of dough dipped in a lye solution before baking, which gives it its deep brown, shiny skin and distinctive taste, and sprinkled with coarse salt.

• Weisswurst Weißwurst · Main dish · Bavaria

  Weißwurst, "white sausage", is the classic Bavarian sausage of finely minced veal and pork back fat, seasoned with parsley, lemon, mace, onion, ginger and cardamom.

• Schweinshaxe · Main dish · Bavaria

  Schweinshaxe, the roasted pork knuckle, is one of the best-loved dishes of Bavaria, where it is called Schweinshaxn or Sauhaxn.

• Obatzda · Snack · Bavaria

  Obatzda is the Bavarian cheese spread of the beer garden.

• Leberkäse · Street food · Bavaria

  Leberkäse, Leberkäs in Bavarian, means "liver cheese", but as a rule it contains no cheese.

• Nürnberger Lebkuchen · Dessert · Nuremberg (Bavaria)

  Lebkuchen are honey-sweetened spice cakes and cookies, close cousins of gingerbread, that have become part of Germany's Christmas traditions.

• Prinzregententorte · Dessert · Munich (Bavaria)

  Prinzregententorte, the Prince Regent cake, is a Bavarian torte of at least six, usually seven, very thin layers of sponge cake spread with chocolate buttercream and covered with a dark chocolate glaze.

Other regions in Germany

• Traditional food of North Rhine-Westphalia: 8 dishes
• Traditional food of Berlin: 3 dishes
• Traditional food of Baden-Württemberg: 4 dishes
• Traditional food of Hamburg: 3 dishes
• Traditional food of Schleswig-Holstein: 4 dishes
• Traditional food of Hesse: 5 dishes
• Traditional food of Lower Saxony: 3 dishes
• Traditional food of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: 3 dishes
• Traditional food of Saarland: 3 dishes
• Traditional food of Saxony: 4 dishes
• Traditional food of Thuringia: 3 dishes
• Food of Germany