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World Food Atlas: Discover local dishes and ingredients
- brodouevencode 2y agoLane cake (Alabama) is a seriously good dessert.
- vundercind 2y agoIf anyone’s looking for an assessment of data quality here, I can confirm that for a few small to mid-sized US cities I’ve lived in or am familiar with, this does a remarkable job of picking out dishes that are truly distinctive, locally considered one of “our things”, and generally pretty damn good if you like the sort of dish it is.
- gnopgnip 2y agoI'm surprised it doesn't have garlic noodles. And it lists some foods like curry crab or dutch crunch without any locations.
- vundercind 2y agoHuh, nothing on there, yeah, searching on DDG I see a few recipes mixed in with other dishes that share some words, no Wikipedia page, limited info about what’s up with it. Looks like a San Francisco thing, maybe?
- bryceacc 2y agoimmediately explained in the beginning of this great video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK9OHVxB_Z8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK9OHVxB_Z8
- vundercind 2y agoLOL, of course I should have just checked YouTube first. Thanks.
- thomcrowe 2y agoImpressed with the onion burger for Oklahoma City.
- klinch 2y ago"With your agreement, we and our *830* partners use cookies or similar technologies" - this must be some joke I fail to understand. What an absurd number.
- julian_t 2y agoJust last week I came across a site that listed over 1500 "partners". I' wonder if anyone from that company can tell me who each of those is and what they are used for?
- ssss11 2y agoIf there’s a sniff of a chance that they’ll make $1 from these partners they’ll sell us all down the road…
- soared 2y agoThis is because you have one vendor who does a specific task (ie audience matching for a data management platform or third party audience vendor) and that vendor uses tens/hundreds of vendors to power their product. So you place a single 1x1 image pixel, but that can call one of many different scripts.
- ainiriand 2y agoModern internet has become absurd.
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- lobsterthief 2y agoThat’s absurd.
- makmanalp 2y agoAs a local, pretty impressed with the listed items in Turkey! Still, the rabbithole goes much deeper. I highly recommend The Turkish Cookbook by Musa Dağdeviren, a food anthropologist of sorts who spent his formative years traveling the country town by town and collecting recipes that were often condemned to be forgotten due to the modernization and globalization of food and food culture: often they'd be passed down generationally and not written down, rely on manual and work intensive or just plain unusual methods, have ingredients that are easy to acquire in a rural household but hard to acquire in a grocery store, have flavors that would be considered unusual by the global standards of the 70s-90s, etc. It's a truly massive and amazing collection.
- mattpallissard 2y agoIt's my favorite cook book. I use it heavily. I pull recipes out of it to bring to parties and community events. I always get rave reviews and a million questions. The funny thing is I'm an American feeding (mostly) Americans. Not only do I have to substitute ingredients but, for the most part, I've never ever tried the dishes prior to cooking them. None of us know how "it's supposed to taste". I find it all pretty comical. He went and archived all of these rural Turkish recipes and now a bunch of people on a rural American island are attempting to replicate them. From where I stand, he nailed his goal. Edit; grammar
- walthamstow 2y agoWhere is a rural American island? I'm trying to think of some and drawing a blank
- mattpallissard 2y agoSoutheast Alaska
- jaystraw 2y agoget my band The Jephries a gig so we can come down from Anchorage and eat some of your Turkish dishes! hehehe
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- carabiner 2y agoHow many Seattle people have even heard of Seattle dog? There should be beecher's cheese, teriyaki, and probably a fish and chips place.
- fnordpiglet 2y agoI haven’t but it’s pretty interesting and now want to try one. Beecher cheese is called out but I’m not sure that it’s a “what is good to eat in seattle” but what is “food originating from seattle” - so fish and chips and teriyaki wouldn’t qualify ?
- ajvpot 2y agoThe map seems to be focused on where foods originated, so Teriyaki and Fish and Chips may not fit Seattle. I could see Beecher's being on there because a cheese variety "Venus" is nearby, but AFAIK Beechers does not produce any unique varieties of cheese. I can confirm you can find a Seattle Dog from a street vendor most nights in Capitol Hill. They are alright.
- poulsbohemian 2y agoNot to be that guy, but search “Seattle teriyaki history” and you will probably change your opinion on whether it belongs on this map. I’d also say that Cougar Gold cheese should be on the Washington map, and that huckleberry anything is more associated with Oregon than Idaho. I’m also dumbfounded that there isn’t a Toronto entry for peameal bacon sandwiches, and that the tenderloin sandwich isn’t an entry for the old Czech town of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. So - map is a good start but has a long way to go.
- morbicer 2y agoWow the tenderloin sandwich is amazing! In Czechia it's kinda traditional that if a family have some longer travel ahead of them that they will prepare pork schnitzels with pickles in a bun or bread. The meme is kids going on a field trip and everybody unpacking their schnitzel sandwiches and eating them before the bus even leaves the home town. It's funny that this dish transferred all the way to USA and remained a community staple.
- willcipriano 2y agoIts legit: https://www.tasteatlas.com/scrapple https://www.tasteatlas.com/scrapple
- croisillon 2y agofood is probably a very difficult concept for an atlas but i'll nitpick anyway: when i zoom in on Brest, France i find "cotriade" (never heard of that) but according to the french wikipedia it is a dish from Morbihan (so not Brest)
- Aloisius 2y agoIt looks like they have Brittany as the origin and just placed it randomly as it disappears if you drop down to Finistère.
- hn_throwaway_99 2y agoData bug if anyone from World Food Atlas is reading this. I clicked on "tapas" and went to the recipe section where it says "Authentic Tortilla de Patata Recipe", and then underneath says "We strongly advise you to read the cooking tips before jumping to the recipe though". The cooking tips are all for a completely different dish, apparently one with shrimp and garlic, that have nothing to do with Tortilla de Patata. https://www.tasteatlas.com/tapas/recipe https://www.tasteatlas.com/tapas/recipe
- j7ake 2y agoI can confirm some of the Chinese dishes are on point, such as the dim sums like HarGow, ShuMai, Cheung fun. I appreciate they don’t even bother with a recipe, and tell you where to eat it. This conforms with the Chinese eating culture: there are foods that should be left to restaurants.
- wolverine876 2y ago> This conforms with the Chinese eating culture: there are foods that should be left to restaurants. Why? Are they too complex for people to make at home?
- j7ake 2y agoJapanese and Chinese cuisine is often characterised by a split between home style and restaurant style cooking. If you buy a recipe book or watch a cooking show from Japan or in China, you will see many recipes that are probably unrecognisable to westerners who did not grow up in an Asian household. The split is mostly some ideology that certain foods are not worth the effort to recreate at home. A lot of it is tool and stove constraints in a home kitchen versus restaurant kitchen (for example some fried noodle recipes require a hot stove). The other is a belief that some skill is involved. Such as nigiri is not something made in a Japanese home, but eaten at a restaurant by a professional chef. To try at home would be a waste of ingredients, and a hubris of skill.
- resolutebat 2y agoNigiri are also a pain in the ass to make. In Japanese homes sushi usually means DIY temaki, which outsources the making process to the eaters, accounts for preferences in ingredients, wasabi strength etc and also ensures the nori stays crispy until the last second.
- resolutebat 2y agoApproximately nobody makes eg dim sum from scratch at home. Too many dishes, too many ingredients, very fiddly recipes, it's just not worth it when you can go out and get them from a restaurant that has specialized in dim sum for decades.
- eatonphil 2y agoAn interesting thing you can do in Google Maps mobile app is go to a city and scroll down and you'll start seeing reviews of restaurants and places left by locals. For example, look up Zanzibar in Google Maps mobile and scroll up on the info view at the bottom (where it has the Directions/Save/Share buttons) to get to "Latest in Zanzibar". By seeing the pictures and reviews you can get an idea for local dishes.
- tchalla 2y agoThose reviews are mostly tourists trying “local” dishes. I tried your method for Zanzibar and found reviews from “local” guides who were anywhere but from Zanzibar. And having visited Zanzibar before, those dishes aren’t really local either
- eatonphil 2y agoAh, I had trusted when Google said "local" guide, but maybe I should not have!
- komali2 2y agoI think, at least 10 years ago, it was some algorithm based on number of reviews you leave vs average number of reviews for the area. For example, on a motorcycle trip across Vietnam in 2015, I left a review for a super isolated pho stand that for whatever reason had a google maps profile. I got an email a few hours later that I was a "Local Guide" for Đồng Hới. Cool! Only once I got home to Houston did I realize, I wasn't a "Local Guide" for Đồng Hới, I was just now and forever a "local guide" for everywhere on earth! All my reviews had "local guide" next to it and would get lots of little thumbs up things, all my images I submit to restaurants now get TONS of views, it's really quite silly! Very helpful once I started my own restaurant and left a review for it though ;) or my friend's restaurants
- willismichael 2y agoThis site has some great recipes. It's really too bad that they'll never float to the top of a search engine because they're missing the obligatory long-form blog post preamble.
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- NoboruWataya 2y agoI was ready to complain that it attributes Dubliner cheddar to Cork, but... TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubliner_Cheese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubliner_Cheese
- yareal 2y agoWhat do the numbers mean? I assumed zoom in to see other items, but when I zoom in on Iceland I still see "fish and chips 17".
- mikk14 2y agoIf you click on the number it will expand showing you the other recipes from that area that could not be fit in the maximum zoom level.
- mynameisnoone 2y agoIt's all well-and-good to know about local cuisine, but sourcing them affordably and easily in other areas of the world is the key gotcha. Middle America has greatly improved over the past 20 years in international ingredient availability. It used to be impossible to find organic vegetables or tahini (fresh or canned) in middle America, but this is no longer the case. One notable regression is with Whole Foods that doesn't carry any SKUs of pita bread in their flagship headquarters location, while H-E-B contains far more variety of SKUs (not everything WH carries), exceptional customer service, and lower prices.
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- Nursie 2y agoAs a resident of Western Australia, it's disappointing that the Conti roll is the main recognisable thing we have centred on Perth. And I've never seen or heard of a hamdog. We have a vibrant food scene here, from food trucks representing a lot of international food types to some pretty excellent restaurants serving local produce. But I guess there are few unique Western Australian dishes. We are, slowly, embracing more native plants and fruits in cuisine, though it's always seemed a massive oversight to me - it's a vast land with many edible plants but we largely ignore them in favour of the same stuff you can get in the UK and US. We are starting to see things like saltbush, pepperberry, warrigal greens, finger limes, quandong etc, showing up in some places, with interest slowly growing in the richness and possibilities of "Bush Tucker". It does feel a bit odd having whole-Australian things like "Sausage Sizzle" on one city, Sydney. Or "Crocodile meat" centred on Canberra. Yeah it's the capital, but there aren't any crocs within 1000km of there that aren't in a zoo. Note on the site - it's hard to hit the little numbers to expand the foods in any one place. They seem to highlight when the pointer is significantly below the target.
- boffinAudio 2y agoMeat pies, pasties, chico rolls, fish&chips, and if you're really posh, kangaroo-tail soup. Thats what this sandgroper remembers of culinary delights of Perth .. good to know there's more native diversity there these days. EDIT: kind of surprised Cicerillo's seafood trays aren't on the list too ..
- Nursie 2y agoI guess you can’t claim many of them originated here though! (Writing this at the chippy while waiting for my fish and chips to be cooked. Perth fish and chips are great, though this Brit would love it if there were mushy peas on offer in a few more of them!)
- boffinAudio 2y agoMushy peas? Go Home! :) I think you mean pickled onions and carrots. EDIT: Edit and DIM SIM and Pineapple Fritter for dessert. Yeah, I think the most important missing ingredient in fish and chips anywhere else in the world is the beach sunset and the freo doctor .. these two ingredients are essential to proper fish and chips, eh? :)
- tekchip 2y agoThe icon for Quad Cities pizza is off by 100 miles or more. Quad Cities is right in the tip of the bend on the Iowa east side/Illinois west side. It is remarkably local. Can't go giving BFE Iowa credit for something they had nothing to do with.
- lobsterthief 2y agoThe Cuban bread is 100 miles off too; should be in Tampa, as is in the written listing, but the marker is in Sarasota.
- HAL9OOO 2y agoI had an idea for a food recommendation website that gets tips from food bloggers/local celebrities. Any ideas on how taste atlas is getting their data? It can't all just be manually entered from wikipedia or something can it?
- malakai521 2y agoYes, it's entered manually :)
- ITwork2019 2y agoDoes anyone know how you can suggest to add more dishes? This would be the strength of a wiki type thing where it's easier to collaborate
- benjijay 2y agoSlightly upsetting that at maximum zoom, the bubble over London claims 218 more dishes lay hidden behind Fish and Chips, but on clicking that only about 36 load... Great idea, needs better scaling for larger data sets
- matsemann 2y agoCan go anywhere in the world - instantly zooms into my own city, heh. Reminds me of first time testing Google Earth. Watching my own back yard in bad resolution was somehow more exciting than exploring the world.