ONLINE EVENT
Join Cecily Wong and Dylan Thuras, the authors of Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer’s Guide, to explore the rich and delightful world of eating ancient recipes. Drink the “Elixir of the Gods” Lindisfarne Mead, sip on the mysterious and ancient origins of Green Chartreuse, and join us at Roman fish sauce factories, Sicily’s Manna bakeries, and the world’s oldest clambake as we explore 1000 year old recipes that taste just as sweet today.
Gastro Obscura is truly a feast of wonder. Created by the ever-curious minds behind Atlas Obscura, their new book is a breathtaking guide, built to transform your sense of what people around the world eat and drink. Covering all seven continents, Gastro Obscura serves up a loaded plate of incredible ingredients, food adventures, and edible wonders. Ready for a beer made from fog in Chile? Sardinia’s “Threads of God” pasta? Egypt’s 2000-year-old egg ovens?
Join us for a toast to the release of this exciting new volume!
Tickets include the option to purchase a signed copy of Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer’s Guide*shipped to your door by Kitchen Arts & Letters in New York City. *US only
Photo by Timothy Shivers
DYLAN THURAS
Dylan Thuras is the cofounder and creative director of Atlas Obscura, and coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders and the New York Times bestselling kids book An Explorer's Guide for the World's Most Adventurous Kid. Dylan is the host of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, has been a host on the NYTimes T-Brand podcast So You Want to Work Abroad, a correspondent for NPR’s All Things Considered, as well as a guest on CBS Sunday Morning and Science Friday and in print in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and Men’s Health. As a speaker on travel and media he has spoken at the New Yorker festival, SXSW, La Ciudad de las Ideas, EG, and Destinations International among others. Dylan’s pursuit of the unusual began when he was a teenager exploring abandoned buildings in the Midwest, and it eventually took him to Budapest for a year, where he and his wife Michelle Enemark explored and wrote about the history of Eastern Europe. He lives with Michelle and their two children, Phineas and Jean, in New York’s Hudson Valley. Visit him online at @dylanthuras.
Photo by Heather Hawksford
CECILY WONG
Cecily Wong is a writer at Atlas Obscura and the author of two novels. Her debut novel, Diamond Head, was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, recipient of an Elle Readers’ Prize, and voted a best debut of the 2015 Brooklyn Book Festival. Her second novel, Kaleidoscope, will be published in 2022. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the LA Review of Books, Self magazine, Bustle, Atlas Obscura, and elsewhere. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and daughter. Visit Cecily online at @cecilyannwong.
KITCHEN ARTS & LETTERS
Kitchen Arts & Letters is a bookstore devoted to food and drink, with titles imported from around the world. They emphasize works on food culture and innovation.