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Italy: regional café and breakfast traditions
Explore Italian coffee as a daily social ritual, with regional examples from Italy’s official tourism portal.
Ivory Coast: drinks & ingredients
Nyamanku is a local non-alcoholic beverage made from ground ginger root mixed with the juices of oranges, pineapples, and lemons.
Jalisco: the agave landscape of Tequila
A source-cited introduction to the blue-agave landscape and cultural history recognized by UNESCO in Jalisco.
Jamaica: drinks & ingredients
Rum creams (including flavours like coffee, chocolate, rum & raisin, coconut and banana)
Jordan: drinks & ingredients
Tamar hindi (تمر هندي)—a very popular sweet-and-sour Ramadan drink made with tamarind juice.
Kazakhstan: drinks & ingredients
Kumiss is fermented mare’s milk, with a tart, sour-milk flavor.
Kenya: drinks & ingredients
Kenya has several local beer brands, the most popular being Tusker.
Kiribati: drinks & ingredients
Toddy is a local drink made from the sap of a coconut tree.
Kuwait: drinks & ingredients
Arabic coffee and tea accompany sweets in the Kuwaiti cuisine reference.
Kyrgyzstan: drinks & ingredients
One such popular non-alcoholic beverage, especially in the summer, is maksym, a slightly fizzy drink made by fermenting grains.
Laos: drinks & ingredients
The custom in Laos is to drink coffee in glasses, with condensed milk in the bottom, followed by a chaser of green tea.
Latvia: drinks & ingredients
Every spring, birch sap is sold in markets and roadside stalls, but it can also be seen in more refined products, such as birch sap lemonade, still and sparkling wine, mulled wine and birch sap schnapps.
Lebanon: drinks & ingredients
Jallab – sweet drink made from carob, dates, grape molasses, and rose water.
Lemons
A citrus ingredient indexed separately from a fixed local harvest calendar.
Lesotho: drinks & ingredients
Ginger beer is listed among the beverages in the Lesotho cuisine reference.
Liberia: drinks & ingredients
A local rum is also made from sugarcane, and called "cane juice" or gana gana.
Libya: drinks & ingredients
Regular American/British coffee is available in Libya, and is known as "Nescafé" (a misnomer).
Liechtenstein: drinks & ingredients
Some beer uses malt from Liechtenstein, although much of it is brewed in Switzerland.
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