Foodlines

An Atlas of Food Evolution

Where did your favourite dish come from?

Trace the ancestry and migration of the world's most beloved dishes — back to their first recorded origin.

16 lineages · 451 dishes · 14,400 years

Play the Origin QuizJourney of a dish
Coffee14
Coffee
Bread15
Bread
Yogurt16
Yogurt
Biriyani01
Persia · 950 CE – present

Biriyani

A layered rice dish that crossed empires and oceans
Pizza02
Pizza
Dumplings / Momos03
Dumplings / Momos
Rolls04
Rolls