The world's cuisines this atlas records, grouped into seven sub categories drawn from the UN M49 geoscheme sub-region tier: East Asian, Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern and South Asian, Northern African, Sub-Saharan African, European, and Latin American and Caribbean. A cuisine here is the cooking tradition of a region or people, distinct from any single dish, drink or ingredient it produces, each described in its own right and linked back here by relationship. A cuisine whose regional placement is genuinely disputed, such as Georgian cuisine's grouping with the Middle East and South Asia under UN M49's Western Asia assignment rather than Europe, is recorded as a stated editorial call rather than hidden.