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

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This is perhaps most apparent when it comes to food, which is a visceral reminder of how our cultures simliar and how they are the same. Festivals - chase a wheel of double Gloucester at Britain's annual Cooper's Hill cheese rolling competition. Organized into short lively sections, Gastro Obscura spotlights quirky feasts and festivals, extraordinary spirits and wines, offbeat museums and monuments, unusual markets and farms, gorgeous getaways and heady hideaways.

You might notice the link between ‘Gastro Obscura’, and the popular ‘Atlas Obscura’, a travel guide like no other, pointing out all the unusual places around the world. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Gastro Obscura” by Dylan Thuras, an author of “Atlas Obscura,” and Cecily Wong chronicles surprising comestibles, from an eel smokehouse in New York to the cafeteria at Chernobyl. Perhaps because it is Great Britain and Ireland and I am familiar with these countries and their food that the book lacks interest? What could be more important in this moment in time than to be so delightfully engaged in the many ways food cultivates—through sometimes eccentric means!

Food and memory are tightly intertwined, and these recipes are a great start to reminisce about your favorite places through food or create memories with new recipes from around the world. For example, there's a two-page spread on "Yoshoku" (Japanese versions of western food) and another on Italian food in the former colony of Eritrea (East Africa).

This might be a fairly general tip (“The days of cocaine-laced bordeaux are over, but try regular bordeaux – it’s very good.

It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. I get that there are economic and publishing constraints, but I found myself coming to the end of each entry and wanting more, a whole lot more. I read it cover to cover, but you could also just dip in here and there, or visit, however you like to read.

Dylan Thuras is the cofounder and creative director of Atlas Obscura, as well as a co-author of Atlas Obscura and The Atlas Obscura Explorer's Guide for the World's Most Adventurous Kid. Focusing as much on food's place in our lives as well as our bellies, the book covers history--the network of ancient Roman fish sauce factories. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. For the longest of time, before traveling to any new destination, I always made it a point to check out Atlas Obscura online. Part cookbook and part short stories, a reader could open this book onto any page and be both entertained and educated.There are cod tongues in Eastern Canada; pickles brined in Kool-Aid, a specialty in the Mississippi Delta; and the cafeteria on the grounds of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, open to tourists who must pass through a radiation detector.

From historical background to recent discoveries, long-held myths to unusual facts, this book is a wonder! Thanks to the publishers and NetGalley for the opportunity to review a digital ARC in exchange for an unbiased review. 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. All it takes is about ten minutes, then the soft block of blood can be cut into pieces and gently boiled to firm up the texture ever so slightly.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.