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Culinary Atlas
Mapping Our Food Stories
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Play About You Cook's Book
Journey Start
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Curious Cook
Play one dish scout and one quiz.
Real-World Chef
Play all games and quizzes once.
Designer of Your Fate
Do analog activities twce.
Food Historian
Complete a course.
Journey Start
Curious Cook
Real-World Chef
Designer of Your Fate
Food Historian
QUIZZES & GAMES
GAME
Dish Scout
How many dishes do you know? What do you cook? Tinder for food. This is the base that other games will draw from. Replay to unlock other games.
About 3 minutes
GAME
60-Second Supper
No repeats or hesitation. Name every dish you can in 60 seconds, then place them in another 60. Replay to unlock your memories and other games.
About 2 minutes
FAMILY TABLE
Family-Style Foodie
How did you grow up eating? Every answer reveals a little more about your relationship with food.
About 5 minutes
LOCAL TABLE
Local Table
What does the place you're from eat? Breakfast spreads, wild game, foraging and the dish your town is known for.
About 4 minutes
PERSONAL TABLE
Casual Eats
A quiz about the everyday, the offbeat, and the food you actually eat. Goes toward creating your menu.
About 4 minutes
QUIZ
Simmering Hot Takes
Culinary debates. No right answers. Well, maybe.
About 2 minutes
GAME
Pressure Cooker
Play Dish Scout three times to unlock. Then you get 60 seconds to talk us through a dish you cook.
About 2 minutes
In development
In development
GAME
Final Clue
Your grandmother with the yeast in the backyard. Mystery-style matcher for your community.
In development
GAME
Cooking Caravan
You're on a trade route. Track everywhere you've seen a dish. Play Dish Scout 4 times to unlock.
In development
QUIZ
Time Traveller
After the war? Pre-COVID? Test your memory for time (and ages) through your food life. How specific can you get?
ANALOG ACTIVITIES
Set down the screen or dial the phone and move through physical space. Play these community-building games and see the payoff in what you learn and how you feel.
In development
INVESTIGATE
Elder Talks
In development. Stand on the shoulders of giants. If you've never asked, here's a reason to.
In development
PLAY
Friendsgiving
A game for strengthening friendships. Great idea for a weekday hangout in your third space of choice, or a tag to mahjong night.
BUILD YOUR BOOK
ARCHIVE
Submit Your History
A simple, no-nonsense submission process. Write down what your family cooks so it joins the shared record and outlasts all of us. Build your free book in the process.
GUIDES & COURSES
Serious about investigating your food history? In upcoming versions, we'll provide courses and guides for going on your food journey thoroughly. To continue building, we need your help. Become a culinary atlas supporter and be a part of making this happen.
In development
INVESTIGATE
Investigate Your Culinary DNA
A short guided journey for the curious investigator finding themselves out for the first time.
In development
GUIDE
Oral History Practice
A guided course for practicing food scholarship on your own histories and interests, from setup, to coffee interview to data analysis and archiving. Not for the casual user.
Oral History Quiz
Your Family Table
4 questions. No wrong answers.
Question 1 of 4
Quiz
Casual Eats
6 questions. No wrong answers.
Question 1 of 6
Dish Scout
Do you cook this dish?
1 of 10 this session
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Answering about set my places
I cook this: my favorite dishes, my weeknight dishes, high-status dishes, desserts, niche dishes only my family cooks.
I eat this: things my parents or grandparents cook, or things unique to my area.
I know of this: I've seen it around. It might not be common, or a little strange. I've never had it, but I've seen it crop up here.
I have something to say about this dish
I want to add my own recipe to this dish
Heart this dish, add it to my want-to-learn list
60-Second Supper
No repeats or hesitation.
Category is:
Interactive Suite Game
Pressure Cooker
You've got 60 seconds. Talk us through how you'd cook this dish.
0:60
Your dish
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Tap the mic to start the clock
In Development
Simmering Hot Takes
Culinary debates. One answer per question. Responses mapped by county.
Got a question that belongs here?
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Submit a Recipe
Even fragments count. Approximations welcome.
Dishes you bookmarked to add a recipe
Please select a published dish from the suggestions, or submit a dish request first.
Ingredients are required.
Steps are required.
CC BY-NC-SA means anyone can share and adapt this recipe with credit, but not for commercial purposes. This is the spirit of the commons.
Click to add a photo
(Upload available in V1.1)
Your Culinary DNA
Your "food story" is what we call your Culinary DNA: the mix of people, places and habits that shaped how you eat. It's made up of three parts: the body, the food culture, and unique influences in your life.

Not enough data yet — share the platform with your family to build this profile!
Culinary DNA profile chart will appear here once you complete the Oral History Quiz and 10+ Dish Scout responses.
Your story is what we call your Culinary DNA: the mix of people, places and habits that shaped how you eat.

Planned: pie chart of your top dish origins + comparison to your county average.
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