A type of flatbread made from flour, water, and salt, traditionally baked by Indigenous peoples of North America.
From Cree 'bannok' or similar Algonquian languages. The word entered English through contact with Indigenous peoples in Canada and was later applied to similar flatbreads in other cultures.
Bannack represents one of the clearest examples of culinary vocabulary entering English through Indigenous contact—it's the same bread but spelled differently as it traveled through different languages and regions across North America.
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