It started with “let's have a Peruvian dinner night.”

Some families have movie night. Ours has dinner night: pick a country, find its food, mix its drinks — one with spirit, one without — and learn, between bites, why the dish exists at all. Who first cooked it. What trade route or harvest or celebration shaped it. Why it tastes like the place it comes from.

The recipes are written for real kitchens and supermarket ingredients, timed for evenings when energy is finite, and every one carries the field notes we wished the internet had given us: the origin, the culture, the reason each ingredient matters.

Every dish wears one of two stamps. When it wears Tried at our table, it means exactly that — we cooked it, together, and the recipe reflects what worked. On our list — not yet cooked means we researched and wrote it for a country we haven't cooked yet. We never move a dish to the first stamp without actually cooking it, and we'd love to hear how it goes if you get there first.

The map keeps growing. Pick a country and cook the whole night — and if you don't know where to start, let the map surprise you.