World Food Atlas: Discover local dishes and ingredients

Where is a rural American island? I'm trying to think of some and drawing a blank

Wow, that's amazing and a bit funny - so heartwarming to me that it's a success!

Nice!

You need to get the sugar cubes and use way too many for maximum authenticity :-) I myself am partial to Çaykur's Hemşin tea, by the way.

Mehmet Efendi is good if you're walking by the shop (smells amazing) but the dirty secret is that in a post specialty coffee world, you're probably better off asking your local coffee shop to grind fresh beans for you on the "Turkish" setting or absent that, the finest possible setting they have - more than espresso. And you get to have an interesting conversation with the baristas because they're always super psyched about it for some reason. Arabica beans, dark roast, low acidity from Ethiopia, Yemen etc is traditional but you shouldn't feel limited to that.

If there’s a sniff of a chance that they’ll make $1 from these partners they’ll sell us all down the road…

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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?

Ah, I had trusted when Google said "local" guide, but maybe I should not have!

Japanese 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.

Approximately 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.

It's probably some combination of equipment, ingredients or fixed time cost that only makes sense amortized over a large number of units.

I don't make fish and chips or deep-fried chicken at home. I know my kitchen will be smoky and greasy, and I'll have a ton of leftover oil.

Croissants, or their cousin puff pastry are a pain in the ass unless you're making a big batch to freeze or sell. Making a dozen buns in a batch is not so bad, but it's hardly worth the effort to make only a dozen croissants.

Paella tastes best made in a paella pan, and naan is best when it's hot from a tandoor oven. Who's going to keep all that gear around for the one time a year you make paella or naan?

My father ran a Chinese restaurant for a few years and some dishes like dim sum we made at home only when we had every available family member pitching in assembly line style, we usually had recipes that called for enough filling to make X number of dim sum, where X was the number of rice paper dough wraps in a single package. People can eat a lot of dim sum and it's manual intensive labor. Some other things like stir frying doesn't work as well with most home ranges and one can only make one or two servings at a time, even though cooking time is very short. Even with the home made dim sum we took shortcuts besides using the pre made wraps, for the ones with barbecue pork fillings we bought the pork already cooked from the Chinese grocery.

some dim sum cooking techniques are too fiddly.

one for example is hand mincing; a fair amount of dim sum dishes are prepared by mincing meat using two cleavers, repeatedly, and sometimes kind of throwing it against a surface until it becomes springy in texture. there isn't really a mechanical equivalent for the home; a food processor completely makes the wrong texture, and so does buying pre-ground meat from the store.

dim sum is also similar to tapas where you are supposed to order a large variety of small dishes as a sort of feast. it is quite annoying for a family to make a dozen or twenty dishes consisting of four bites each.

Weird, it didn't do that for me. It just opened the one recipe.

I 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!)

Not 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.