Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide by Cecily Wong and Dylan Thuras offers a marvelous literary excursion into forgotten food histories, endangered culinary traditions and obscure gastronomical experiences from around the world, complete with photographs of dishes worth tasting and places where tasty foods are offered.
Gastro Obscura is scattered with recipes for dishes as varied as Ben Franklin's milk punch and Afghani mulberry bread. It also shares the provenance and modern interpretation of menu items such as Japanese sumo wrestler soup and Kenyan fermented runner's milk, with deep probes into Indian curry dishes in Britain, Austria's beer spa and the international art of corn on the cob.
Created by the community-driven online magazine and travel platform Atlas Obscura, this vibrant volume is "a noisy, delicious, action-packed feast that spans seven continents, and over 120 countries." --Shahina Piyarali, reviewer