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

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Festivals--chase a wheel of double Gloucester at Britain's annual Cooper's Hill cheese rolling competition. I’d recommend ‘Gastro Obscura’, to anyone curious and fascinated with how things work elsewhere; in this case food. It's the next best thing to traveling-- no, it's probably better than traveling now in these times to read the comprehensive and far-ranging articles on the quirky and rich details of foods around the world.

Learn about a mind-boggling array of Mexican candy, the bouncy meatballs of the Chaoshan region of China and a rare coffee, planted near giant mossy trees, in Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains National Park. Spanning the globe with these venerated cookbooks, we cannot wait to help you travel without leaving your kitchen through these delicious foods! 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. Thinking about such languages may disappear with changing environmental patterns, social and commercial pressures. From dipping into while she was staying with us, she reported two days later that she had read the whole thing from beginning to end.Products shown, tagged or featured on YouTube by creators are sold by merchants and are subject to merchant's terms and conditions. It's generously illustrated with color photos and drawings, and each food includes a "how to try it" blurb for those who want to sample that particular oddity. Gastro Obscura is a well-illustrated coffee table type read filled with fascinating facts and interesting foods from around the world.

Very well structured, full of exciting insights and photos, the book is an informative read that makes for a brilliant guide before any vacation. And hidden gems that might be right around the corner, like the vending machine in Texas dispensing full sized pecan pies.

Thanks to the publishers and NetGalley for the opportunity to review a digital ARC in exchange for an unbiased review. this sprawling, encyclopedic odyssey is crammed to its “air-breathing monster fish” gills with weird delicacies, lost histories, potent potables, bizarre bazaars, and circumspect rituals of consumption.