Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide (Atlas Obscura)

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Gastro Obscura“ nimmt uns mit auf eine kulinarische Entdeckungsreise und zeigt, was Menschen rund um den Globus essen und trinken. For those of us among us who have a burning curiosity, for the foodies, and for those with just a fascination about the world, this book is perfect. I think the best thing about a book like this is just how much you can learn- there were so many things in this book that I had no idea about, and this is coming from someone who had read on the topic of strange and wonderful foods before. The book is divided up by location, with lots of illustrations, captions, and sidebars, and most stories take no more than a page or two to tell, so it can be read piecemeal (sorry) or cover to cover. The curious minds behind Atlas Obscura now turn to the hidden curiosities of food, which becomes a gateway to fascinating stories about human history, science, art, and tradition―like the first book, all organized by country, lavishly illustrated, and full of surprises.

Talk about how Russians once preserved their milk with frogs, the Inuit tradition of fermenting birds in seal skin, or the Worm Courtship Festival of Indonesia. Gastro Obscura’ ’s authors; Cecily Wong and Dylan Thuras, both have the pedigree expected to put together such an interesting work. To me, the true authors are the people who wrote the original articles that make the bulk of the wonder within. This is a trip around the world with photos and descriptions of unique foods, categorized by location.I feel nauseous, describing blood clots as silky is sickening, saying they burst and melt in the mouth is very, very sickening and then describing the taste of blood as something you'd really want to eat is horrible beyond anything I've ever read. But far more than a menu of curious minds delicacies and unexpected dishes, Gastro Obscura reveals food’s central place in our lives as well as our bellies, touching on history-trace the network of ancient Roman fish sauce factories.

A modern-day oyster vending machine in France shares a page with cocaine-laced wine of the late 19th century, as do a cow’s head barbecue in Texas and a potato doughnut from Utah. Covering all seven continents, Gastro Obscura serves up a loaded plate of incredible ingredients, food adventures, and edible wonders. And it is now serving up the best of it in a lavishly illustrated food-lover’s gift of nearly 500 dishes, ingredients, traditions, and experiences. In these pages, you'll find riveting stories of human culture ancient and present, history, climate, mythology, commerce and geography -- all through the lens of that thing you thought you already knew: food. The sections are also easily navigable and make it simple to find specifics if you're looking- and illustrations are provided for many of the foods, which makes it so much easier to understand precisely how they work.For the longest of time, before traveling to any new destination, I always made it a point to check out Atlas Obscura online. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Cecily Wong und Dylan Thuras führen uns so in die Geheimnisse internationaler Küchentraditionen ein und feiern ihre Vielfalt: Bereit für ein Bier aus Nebel in Chile oder Sardiniens »Fäden Gottes«, eine der seltensten Pastasorten der Welt? This book also has the incredible capacity to make you feel as though you are genuinely a part of what you're reading, sparking almost a nostalgia about the things you read about. Cecily is also the co-author of the New York Times bestseller Gastro Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to Food (Workman Publishing).

So, although I found out that people on Hormuz’s Rainbow Island can eat the mineral salt soils there - something not included in the physical book - I easily found myself overwhelmed by the online presence. Die Aufmachung des Buches ist einfach schon sehr hochwertig und es eignet sich perfekt zum Verschenken. In creating a magnum opus that manages to be simultaneously daring as well as fundamentally delicious, this is a culinary high-wire act of culinary anthropology that delivers on its promise and then some. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. In fact, there’s plenty of very accessible entries here – sauna sausages in Finland, a full marathon that includes 23 glasses of wine in (you guessed it) France – even a secret subterranean cave bar in my hometown of Nottingham that I had no idea existed.and hidden gems that might be right around the corner, like the vending machine in Texas dispensing full sized pecan pies. Ich könnte euch jetzt noch von vielen bekannten und unbekannten Gerichten erzählen, aber einerseits sprengt das den Rahmen und andererseits sollt ihr euch das Buch selber zulegen.

Very much fitting into that mould of intriguing coffee table books that are intended to be dipped into on a whim, I still managed to read the whole thing cover-to-cover in a matter of days. Tom Colicchio, chef and activist “Thumbing through this exquisite guide kept me at the breakfast table until dinner time. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from.This captivating book celebrates the incredible global diversity of food, ingredients, and cooking practices. Products shown, tagged or featured on YouTube by creators are sold by merchants and are subject to merchant's terms and conditions. Yes, there's a lot of diverse food culture in the States, but the book is definitely 'Merica-centric. A version of this article appears in print on , Section D, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: To Explore: Spanning the Globe For Culinary Oddities .