It’s time to get out and taste the world again. From those ever-curious, ever-quirky minds behind the #1 New York Times bestselling Atlas Obscura,comes an unputdownable guide that marries our endless appetite for travel with our insatiable interest in food.
Continent by continent, country by country, Gastro Obscura takes up the mantle of Atlas Obscurato - radically expanding our sense of wonder about the world – in this case, what humans eat and drink; which turns out to be far more marvellous than we could ever imagine.
Discover English bog butter. 'Threads of God' pasta (only three women know how to make it). The best black bean fritter restaurant in Brazil. The world’s largest floating restaurant. A croissant museum in Poland. And such truly surprising delicacies as sturgeon spinal cord, blood tofu, stinkbug tacos, and more.
Focusing as much on food’s place in our lives as well as our bellies, the book covers history (for example, the network of ancient Roman fish sauce factories); culture (picture four million women gathering to make rice pudding); travel (scale China's Mount Hua to reach a sacred tea house; and festivals (chase a wheel of double Gloucester at Britain’s annual Cooper’s Hill cheese rolling competition)
The perfect gift for all foodies