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Food, drink & their traditions

Every dish, one connected map of taste.

Food and Drink Atlas is a cross-referenced encyclopedia of the world's foodways, from dishes, cuisines, and ingredients to rituals, feasts, and beyond. Search any dish and follow its threads through every table it reached.

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12,330Sourced facts

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East Asian Cuisines
8 entries
European Cuisines
32 entries
Latin American and Caribbean Cuisines
18 entries
Middle Eastern and South Asian Cuisines
21 entries
North American Cuisines
5 entries
Northern African Cuisines
5 entries
Oceanian Cuisines
2 entries
Southeast Asian Cuisines
10 entries
Sub-Saharan African Cuisines
11 entries

Dishes

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Breads, Flatbreads and Savory Pastries
250 entries
Dips and Spreads
15 entries
Fermented and Pickled Cold Dishes
12 entries
Noodle and Dumpling Dishes
146 entries
Rice, Grain and Starch Dishes
213 entries
Roasted, Grilled and Fried Dishes
320 entries
Salads
43 entries
Salads, Dips, Sandwiches and Fermented Cold Dishes
93 entries
Sandwiches
42 entries
Soups and Broths
141 entries
Stews, Braises and Sauced Dishes
271 entries

Ingredients

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Cereal Grains, Pseudocereals and Pasta
72 entries
Condiments, Sauces and Fermented Flavorings
76 entries
Dairy and Egg Products
79 entries
Fats and Oils
73 entries
Finfish and Shellfish Products
76 entries
Fruits and Fruit Products
71 entries
Generic ingredient
7 entries
Legumes and Legume Products
73 entries
Meat and Poultry Products
75 entries
Minced meat
1 entry
Nuts and Seeds
74 entries
Spices, Herbs and Seasonings
73 entries
Sticky rice cultivar
1 entry
Sweeteners
69 entries
Vegetables and Vegetable Products
69 entries

Drinks

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Cocktails and Mixed Drinks
14 entries
Coffee and Coffee Drinks
6 entries
Dairy-Based and Fermented Milk Beverages
6 entries
Distilled Spirits
39 entries
Fermented Beverages and Beer
10 entries
Soft Drinks, Juices and Non-Alcoholic Refreshments
7 entries
Tea and Tea Drinks
7 entries
Wine and Fortified Wines
13 entries

Traditions

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Dietary Law and Religious Food Practice
10 entries
Food Production and Processing Traditions
19 entries
Social and Ceremonial Dining Customs
24 entries

Culinary Techniques

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Dry-Heat Cooking Methods
28 entries
Food Preservation and Curing Techniques
66 entries
Modernist and Molecular Techniques
18 entries
Moist-Heat and Combination Cooking Methods
21 entries
Preparation and Flavor Development Techniques
101 entries
Regional and Traditional Cooking Techniques
57 entries

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Food Traditions

Street Food Culture

Street food culture is the practice of preparing and selling ready to eat food from carts, stalls and small storefronts in public spaces, historically

Culinary Techniques

Garri Processing

Garri processing is the West African technique for turning cassava roots into a dry, granular, shelf-stable staple food. Peeled and washed cassava tub

Cuisines

Canadian Cuisine

Canadian cuisine consists of the cooking traditions and practices of Canada, with regional variances across the country. First Nations and Inuit have

Dishes

Hwajeon

Hwajeon, also called kkotbukkumi or kkotjijimi, is a small Korean pan-fried rice cake made from glutinous rice flour, honey and edible seasonal flower

Ingredients

Foxtail Millet

Foxtail millet, Setaria italica, is an annual grass of the family Poaceae grown for human food, the second most widely planted millet species overall

Drinks

Martini

The martini is a classic cocktail made by stirring or shaking gin with dry vermouth, typically garnished with an olive or a twist of lemon peel. Its e

Latest Correction

When the atlas changes its mind about something it stated plainly, the record is kept in public.

Concerns Cacao

Earliest Documented Use, To (Year)

What Changed. This entry moved from well-attested to partially Attested on October 10, 2026.

Why. About 5,300 years ago, the date of the cacao starch grains, theobromine residues and ancient DNA at Santa Ana-La Florida in southeast Ecuador reported in 2018; stored as the round year 3300 BCE, so the year is approximate.

Sourced to The use and domestication of Theobroma cacao during the mid-Holocene in the upper Amazon (Nature Ecology & Evolution), Sonia Zarrillo.

An Open Question

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Archaeobotany and Ethiopian textual history

How far does coffee drinking or cultivation in Ethiopia predate the earliest 15th-century documented evidence from Yemen?

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