Geography and Similarity of Regional Cuisines in China

Yu-Xiao Zhu, Junming Huang, Zi-Ke Zhang, Qian-Ming Zhang, Tao Zhou and Yong-Yeol Ahn

PLOS ONE, 2013, vol. 8, issue 11, 1-8

Abstract: Food occupies a central position in every culture and it is therefore of great interest to understand the evolution of food culture. The advent of the World Wide Web and online recipe repositories have begun to provide unprecedented opportunities for data-driven, quantitative study of food culture. Here we harness an online database documenting recipes from various Chinese regional cuisines and investigate the similarity of regional cuisines in terms of geography and climate. We find that geographical proximity, rather than climate proximity, is a crucial factor that determines the similarity of regional cuisines. We develop a model of regional cuisine evolution that provides helpful clues for understanding the evolution of cuisines and cultures.

Date: 2013
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