# Geography and similarity of regional cuisines in China

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3185 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1307.3185/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 11 Jul 2013.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [FIRE: Food Image to REcipe generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.14391/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

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 has 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 found that the 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 to understand the evolution of cuisines and cultures.