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Bacalhau à Brás🇵🇹 Portugal

73%ingredients in common

Spanish Omelette🇪🇸 Spain

Both use:potatoolive oileggonion

Same technique: Egg dish≈ 346 km apart

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There are two ways a dish can have a twin somewhere in the world

Most recipe sites search by ingredient. We measure two axes at once — and they often point to different dishes.

Axis 1 · pairs

Same ingredients, worlds apart

Each row is a pair: two dishes, and the ingredient overlap between them.

Classic French Macarons: Delicate Parisian Cookies67%Amigdalota: Traditional Greek Almond Cookies Cantucci62%Dundee Cake Sheikh El Mahshi62%Baingan Bharta Turkish Baked Rice Pudding62%Mexican Arroz con Leche

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All 8,961 matches are computed on this axis.

Axis 2 · cluster · new

Same technique, different ingredients

No pairs here — these dishes gather around a single technique.

Cold salad33 recipes · 17 countries

Steamed Eggplant Side Dishcentre Smashed Garlic Eggplant71% ingredients Salade Niçoise9% ingredients Classic Waldorf Salad0% ingredients

The percentages are ingredient overlap with Steamed Eggplant Side Dish. The last one is 0% — the first axis does not count it as a match at any threshold. The second axis finds it.

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What is eatmundo?

eatmundo is a cross-cuisine dish database: 1,919 recipes from 26 countries, connected by the ingredients and cooking techniques they share — so for any dish you can see its counterpart in another cuisine, and the evidence behind the match. It is free, works in seven languages and needs no account.

How does eatmundo decide that two dishes are counterparts?

Every ingredient in every recipe is linked to a single canonical ingredient, so "aubergine", "eggplant" and "patlıcan" count as the same thing. Dishes from different countries are then compared in two ways: by the share of ingredients they have in common, and by whether they are made with the same technique — two stews, two stuffed vegetables, two fried doughs. The percentage shown on a match is that ingredient overlap; there are 8,961 such matches, each linking dishes from two different countries.

Can I compare two dishes side by side?

Yes. Every recipe page lists its closest dishes from other cuisines, and many pairs have their own comparison page that sets out what the two dishes share and where they differ.

Where do the recipes come from?

Dish names, countries and photos are real: each photo is a licensed image, with its author and licence shown on the recipe page. Ingredient lists and steps are written and checked by a language model; measured against reference recipes, they agree about 93% of the time. Treat them as a carefully checked starting point.

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The aggregate ingredient-overlap dataset is openly published under CC BY 4.0, and AI assistants can query the dish database directly through the eatmundo MCP server. Recipe texts may be quoted with attribution; bulk reproduction needs permission, and photos carry their own third-party licences.

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