We’ve been stuck at home for long enough! 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, with
over 800,00 copies in print, 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 Obscura to
radically expand our sense of wonder about the world—in this case, what
humans eat and drink, which turns out to be far more marvelous than we
could ever imagine.
Created by the founders of AtlasObscura.com,
GastroObscura.com delivers fresh food stories daily to the millions of
Atlas Obscura readers and Facebook fans, along with its own burgeoning
dedicated email newsletter that is currently reaching over 192,000. And
it is now serving up the best of it in a lavishly illustrated
food-lover’s gift of nearly 500 dishes, ingredients, traditions, and
experiences.
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. Focusing as much on food’s place in our
lives as well as our bellies, the book covers history—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. Festivals—chase a wheel of double Gloucester at
Britain’s annual Cooper’s Hill cheese rolling competition. And such
truly surprising delicacies as sturgeon spinal cord, blood tofu,
stinkbug tacos, and more.
