A] colorfully illustrated, totally entertaining tour through global cuisine, particularly the quirky sort. It's quite a trip, though, reading the strangest food information for anyplace in the world you want to visit. Where that first title could be a little hit and miss, everything here brings you back to those inescapably fascinating questions we all have about food – why do we eat what we eat?

I’d recommend ‘Gastro Obscura’, to anyone curious and fascinated with how things work elsewhere; in this case food. This book was a magnificently fascinating foray into the world of obscure eats, many of which take a lot of adjusting to in terms of wrapping your head around the mechanics of them! The Amashi language and songs bind together with the rhythms of paddling the boats, settings the nets and pulling them in. The book is divided up by location, with lots of illustrations, captions, and sidebars, and most stories take no more than a page or two to tell, so it can be read piecemeal (sorry) or cover to cover. this sprawling, encyclopedic odyssey is crammed to its “air-breathing monster fish” gills with weird delicacies, lost histories, potent potables, bizarre bazaars, and circumspect rituals of consumption.I think that stating the book was "written by Gastro Obscura's contributors, compiled by Wong and Thuras" would be a much fairer credit.

An ambitious, exciting, and zany anthology of heritage foodways, Gastro Obscura tells the stories no one else is telling. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin.The richest were then eating such extravagances as glasses moulded from sugar, as well as cakes, pastries, jams, preserved fruit, sugared almonds, marzipan, gingerbread, pastries, cakes and jellies.