[HN Gopher] World Food Atlas: Discover local dishes and ingredients
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World Food Atlas: Discover local dishes and ingredients
Author : dsego
Score : 70 points
Date : 2024-05-06 08:50 UTC (14 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.tasteatlas.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.tasteatlas.com)
| brodouevencode wrote:
| Lane cake (Alabama) is a seriously good dessert.
| vundercind wrote:
| If 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 wrote:
| I'm surprised it doesn't have garlic noodles. And it lists some
| foods like curry crab or dutch crunch without any locations.
| vundercind wrote:
| Huh, 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 wrote:
| immediately explained in the beginning of this great video:
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK9OHVxB_Z8
| vundercind wrote:
| LOL, of course I should have just checked YouTube first.
| Thanks.
| thomcrowe wrote:
| Impressed with the onion burger for Oklahoma City.
| klinch wrote:
| "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.
| makmanalp wrote:
| As a local, pretty impressed with the listed items in Turkey!
|
| Still, the rabbithole goes much deeper. I highly recommend The
| Turkish Cookbook by Musa Dagdeviren, 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.
| carabiner wrote:
| How many Seattle people have even heard of Seattle dog? There
| should be beecher's cheese, teriyaki, and probably a fish and
| chips place.
| fnordpiglet wrote:
| I 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 wrote:
| The 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.
| Aunche wrote:
| Seattle dogs are a staple for bar crawlers.
| willcipriano wrote:
| Its legit: https://www.tasteatlas.com/scrapple
| croisillon wrote:
| food 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 wrote:
| It looks like they have Brittany as the origin and just placed
| it randomly as it disappears if you drop down to Finistere.
| hn_throwaway_99 wrote:
| Data 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.
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| https://www.tasteatlas.com/tapas/recipe
| j7ake wrote:
| I 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 wrote:
| > 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?
| eatonphil wrote:
| An 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".
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| By seeing the pictures and reviews you can get an idea for local
| dishes.
| tchalla wrote:
| Those 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 wrote:
| Ah, I had trusted when Google said "local" guide, but maybe I
| should not have!
| willismichael wrote:
| This 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.
| NoboruWataya wrote:
| I was ready to complain that it attributes Dubliner cheddar to
| Cork, but... TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubliner_Cheese
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