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

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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.

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. 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. 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. There have been many types of books in history that collect and organise content from other sources. The original site – and its first book by the same name – is a crowd-sourced collection of weird and wonderful attractions around the world, be they strange museums, unusual folk traditions or unexpected attractions.Perhaps because it is Great Britain and Ireland and I am familiar with these countries and their food that the book lacks interest? But free-range only legally in the US means the chickens have access to outdoors - a small concrete yard is fine. The chickens can’t survive in industrial chicken farms, and so the shell’s blue hue has unwittingly become an indicator of a happy chicken with a free-range life. 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.

Or, ‘The History of the World in 100 objects’, by Neil Macgregor which records important individual archaeological finds throughout history.We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. But far more than a menu of curious minds, delicacies and unexpected dishes, Gastro Obscura reveals food’s central place in humanity's history. I feel nauseous, describing blood clots as silky is sickening, saying they burst and melt in the mouth is very, very sickening and then describing the taste of blood as something you'd really want to eat is horrible beyond anything I've ever read. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Als nächstes habe ich mir Panama vorgenommen, denn dies ist mein nächstes Reiseziel und ich bin jetzt noch neugieriger.