Gastro Obscura - Rambling Readers

448 pages

English language

Published Jan. 2, 2021 by Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated.

ISBN:: 978-1-5235-0219-6

(1 review)

A Feast of Wonder!

Created by the ever-curious minds behind Atlas Obscura, this breathtaking guide transforms our sense of what people around the world eat and drink. Covering all seven continents, Gastro Obscura serves up a loaded plate of incredible ingredients, food adventures, and edible wonders. Ready for a beer made from fog in Chile? Sardinia’s “Threads of God” pasta? Egypt’s 2000-year-old egg ovens? But far more than a menu of curious minds delicacies and unexpected dishes, Gastro Obscura reveals food’s central place in our lives as well as our bellies, touching on history–trace the network of ancient Roman fish sauce factories. Culture–picture four million women gathering to make rice pudding. Travel–scale China’s sacred Mount Hua to reach a tea house. Festivals–feed wild macaques pyramid of fruit at Thailand’s Monkey Buffet Festival. And hidden gems that might be right around the corner, like the vending machine in Texas dispensing full …

A Feast of Wonder!

Created by the ever-curious minds behind Atlas Obscura, this breathtaking guide transforms our sense of what people around the world eat and drink. Covering all seven continents, Gastro Obscura serves up a loaded plate of incredible ingredients, food adventures, and edible wonders. Ready for a beer made from fog in Chile? Sardinia’s “Threads of God” pasta? Egypt’s 2000-year-old egg ovens? But far more than a menu of curious minds delicacies and unexpected dishes, Gastro Obscura reveals food’s central place in our lives as well as our bellies, touching on history–trace the network of ancient Roman fish sauce factories. Culture–picture four million women gathering to make rice pudding. Travel–scale China’s sacred Mount Hua to reach a tea house. Festivals–feed wild macaques pyramid of fruit at Thailand’s Monkey Buffet Festival. And hidden gems that might be right around the corner, like the vending machine in Texas dispensing full sized pecan pies. Dig in and feed your sense of wonder.

2 editions

Soh Kam Yung reviewed Gastro Obscura by Dylan Thuras

A tour of interesting food from around the world

4 stars

A book filled with lots of lovely food featured from all over the world. Some history on how the food is created, either by local people or by people have historically migrated to the area from the past, is given, along with some recommended places to try the food. The way some of the food is prepared may be considered disgusting to an outsider, so trying it may be challenging.

There are also interesting stories of people trying to revive recipes of food as prepared by their ancestors, while others are of migrants adapting the recipes they have known for generations in their new country. In any case, the food presented in the book may tempt the reader to give them a try, rather than sticking to the usual food eaten by tourists.