Food is a map with flavour.

Why a map, not a quiz

A multiple-choice quiz can be beaten by elimination. A map cannot. Placing a pin asks you to commit to a place, and the distance tells you something useful about how close your mental atlas really is. A near miss on a neighbouring country is a different kind of knowledge from a lucky guess three continents away.

That is also why every round ends with a reason, not just a flag. The point is not to collect points. The point is to leave knowing why paprika is central to Hungarian cooking, or why a Thai noodle dish has a government policy behind it.

What is in the collection

102 dishes from 71 countries, chosen for geographic spread rather than internet fame. Every dish has a photograph, a list of key ingredients, a short description, an origin note, and a source for the image. The map covers the whole world at 1:110m resolution, which is detailed enough to place a country and small enough to load quickly.

How the content is handled

Origin claims are kept conservative. Where the history is genuinely contested — pavlova, borscht — the game says so and accepts the primary claimant while showing the dispute. Descriptions stay spoiler-light so the dish can be played, and the full story appears only after the reveal.

Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under their individual licences. Credits, licence names, and source links are listed on the sources page and repeated on every dish page.

Privacy, plainly

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