Recipes and flavors around the world: the online atlas is here

Have you ever gone for a holiday to a place with a different culture and gastronomy than yours? Surely you have found yourself in this situation wondering which is the best place to eat local delicacies, and above all what are the typical culinary products of the place. The ideal would be to have a person, a local acquaintance, who would direct you to the best restaurants and markets where you can find the specialties of the local cuisine. Unfortunately – however globalized and growing international our world is – we cannot expect to find in every corner of the globe a friend willing to guide us in discovering the culinary culture of the places we go to.

This challenge is also complicated by the growth of multinationals in the food sector. In fact, more and more fast food chains such as McDonald's, Burger King, etc. are expanding. which often due to laziness or lack of information become the only known port in a foreign land. At the same time this is also a big one missed opportunity to get to know new flavours, smells and colours, through the encounter with a different culinary culture by tasting local foods.

It is a lost opportunity, sometimes wrapped up forever, because some foods deserve to be tasted in their places of origin, in the places from which they have absorbed history and culture; and because, almost always, only in those places do they have flavors and aromas that are difficult to imitate and repeat under different conditions. How to do then?

From today there is a simple and effective solution at your disposal discovered by our editorial staff.

It was launched last year, with the ambition of guiding taste tourists from all over the world, a site which aims to illustrate, on a world-scale map, the peculiarities and uniqueness of the original culinary traditions.

By accessing the site it appears immediately a map of the globe that highlights the most typical and famous dishes of the places shown on the map. It faithfully shows us the specialties of each nation, region by region with surprising accuracy. By enlarging the map, the number of culinary specialties offered by the site increases, catapulting the visitor into a journey between quality, novelty and tradition: from the renowned French cheese to the less common Case of March (cheese of Sardinian origin, for strong stomachs), from ancient Japanese soups such as Karē Udon (noodle soup and shabu shabu meat) to traditional Guláš disputed between Slovakia and the Czech Republic, up to the most folkloristic muktuk of Eskimo tradition (bits of whale meat).

Among other services offered, Tasteatlas does not leave us alone even in the choice of the restaurant where you can taste these specialties, providing a wide range. Finally, it also suggests the most suitable places to find the product we particularly liked, to perhaps bring it to our tables.

Also, if you have taken the project to heart, Tasteatlas offers you the opportunity to contribute yourself to the expansion of the site's database, suggesting by e-mail typical products or specialties that deserve to be reported and added. The site is also in constant development and new gastronomic ideas are added every day.

So if the last obstacle to your departure was food, problem solved! Have a good trip.