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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
QUIZ
Family-Style Foodie
How did you grow up eating? Every answer reveals a little more about your relationship with food.
About 5 minutes
QUIZ
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
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 idiocuisine book in the process.
ARCHIVE
Submit a Recipe
Add a recipe cooked by you or someone you know. No exact amounts necessary.
ARCHIVE
Submit a Story
Answer a few questions about your family table — your words become part of your book.
In development
ARCHIVE
Submit an Artifact
Someone you know probably has a binder that's going to burn in the next fire.
In development
ARCHIVE
Submit Audio or Video
Don't want to deal with typing? Just click record instead.
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 Idiocuisine
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
8 questions. Free text. No wrong answers.
Question 1 of 8
Your story has been submitted for review.
A moderator will review your responses before they go live. Thank you for contributing to the archive.
Quiz
Casual Eats
6 questions. Free text. No wrong answers.
Question 1 of 6
Your answers have been submitted for review.
A moderator will review your responses before they go live. Thank you for contributing to the archive.
Dish Scout
Do you cook this dish?
1 of 10 this session
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Bookmark — I want to add this recipe to the commons
Save it to your Cook's Book so you can submit your recipe later
Heart this dish — add it to my want-to-learn list
Session complete!
You responded to 20 dishes this session. Your answers help map regional food knowledge.
Interactive Suite Game
Chopped
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
Congrats — you've caught up to Dish Scout!
You've talked us through every dish you told us you cook. Ready to add a new one to the record?
In Development
Simmering Takes
Culinary debates. One answer per question. Responses mapped by county.
Got a question that belongs here?
Submitted! We'll review it.
Contribute
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)
You must consent to publish.
Recipe submitted for review.
Thank you. A moderator will review your submission before it goes live in the atlas.
Your Idiocuisine
Your "food story" is what we affectionately call an idiocuisine: a cuisine of your idiosyncrasies. 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!
Idiocuisine profile chart will appear here once you complete the Oral History Quiz and 10+ Dish Scout responses.
Your story is what we affectionately call an idiocuisine: a cuisine of your idiosyncrasies.
Planned: pie chart of your top dish origins + comparison to your county average.
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