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

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My only disappointment was that the photography and design felt a bit dated, but I guess it’s expected for a book gathered from endless sources. They collect together pieces of interesting knowledge and organise it in a way that makes it easy to read end-to-end, or to sample in and out for interesting and inspiration. 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.

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. This book was a magnificently fascinating foray into the world of obscure eats, many of which take a lot of adjusting to in terms of wrapping your head around the mechanics of them! Like all books of this kind, it can get a little tedious if you try to read it cover-to-cover, but it's good for interspersing other, heavier reading material or in small bites. Tom Colicchio, chef and activistThis exquisite guide kept me at the breakfast table until dinner time. Zu ein paar Gerichten findet man dann aber sogar die Rezepte zum Nachkochen, aber das ist eher die Seltenheit.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. But far more than a menu of curious minds, delicacies and unexpected dishes, Gastro Obscura reveals food’s central place in humanity's history. Armchair travelers and foodies will be left hungry, nostalgic, more knowledgeable about dishes from all over, and, most importantly, ready to try something different, whether it’s found around the corner or across the world. What impressed me was how much ingenuity that had when they made ice cream in the desert and the use of geothermal energy to make bread.

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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. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. Falls man ein Gericht ausprobieren möchte, hat die Autorin die Absätze mit kleinen hilfreichen Randnotizen versehen.

Festivals–chase a wheel of double Gloucester at Britain’s annual Cooper’s Hill cheese rolling competition. To me, the true authors are the people who wrote the original articles that make the bulk of the wonder within.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The richest were then eating such extravagances as glasses moulded from sugar, as well as cakes, pastries, jams, preserved fruit, sugared almonds, marzipan, gingerbread, pastries, cakes and jellies. Gastro Obscura is just a delightful book for all that is interested in food or food history information, as there is something for everyone here. miles each September (cancelled this year due to the Coronavirus), pausing en route to sip from 23 glasses of wine and gulp local treats like cheese, foie gras and oysters.

I think that stating the book was "written by Gastro Obscura's contributors, compiled by Wong and Thuras" would be a much fairer credit. Such was the case with the original Atlas Obscura book, which has the same approach to the way articles published collectively online are now credited to a few "authors". Armchair travelers and foodies will be left hungry, nostalgic, more knowledgeable about dishes from all over, and, most importantly, ready to try something different, whether it's found around the corner or across the world. I have a physical copy of ‘Gastro Obscura’, a weighty tome of 438 pages, which organises foods from across the world according to their region. 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.For the longest of time, before traveling to any new destination, I always made it a point to check out Atlas Obscura online. It is no juvenile book, and for people who don't usually approach factual books as novels to be read in one hit, it makes itself very available for perusal at your leisure. But far more than a menu of curious minds delicacies and unexpected dishes, Gastro Obscura reveals foods central place in our lives as well as our bellies, touching on history-trace the network of ancient Roman fish sauce factories.