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33 Cinnamon Recipes From 24 Cuisines.

Tree bark with two personalities: soft, floral Ceylon cinnamon (Mexico’s canela of choice, essential in café de olla and mole) and the harder, more aggressive cassia that dominates Western baking. It is a savory spice across much of the world — in Mexican adobos, Middle Eastern rice dishes and Greek stews — long before it is a dessert one. Whole sticks infuse; ground cinnamon punches fast.

33 recipes on this route

The recipes.

Every recipe on this route.

All 33 of them, alphabetically, with the country each one comes from.

also known ascanela, cassia

common in Mexico