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

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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. 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.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.In cases where the layout uses a picture as the background with text in front, more often than not the contrast is not enough and the text is very difficult to make out. 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. Brought to you by author Cecily Wong and the curious minds at Atlas Obscura — which we’ve covered many times around here — the new book titled Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer’s Guide follows in the footsteps of their first book, taking you on an eye-opening adventure through the often-surprising culinary world. 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.

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. A favorite hedonistic challenge: France’s Marathon du Médoc, during which thousands of participants, dressed in whimsical costumes, annually race 26. From the creators of Atlas Obscura comes a lavishly illustrated guide to esoteric and eccentric cuisine from around the world, embracing everything from English bog butter to China's sacred mountaintop tea house.But far more than a menu of curious minds, delicacies and unexpected dishes, Gastro Obscura reveals food’s central place in humanity's history. Ambitiously celebrating Earth’s diversity, this zany anthropological opus, published today, is an inviting, horizon-expanding portal.