Zhu et al., "Geography and Similarity of Regional Cuisines in China" (2013)
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Yu-Xiao Zhu, Junming Huang, Zi-Ke Zhang, Qian-Ming Zhang, Tao Zhou, and Yong-Yeol Ahn, PLOS ONE 8(11), e79161 (2013)
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author = {Yu-Xiao Zhu and Junming Huang and Zi-Ke Zhang and Qian-Ming Zhang and Tao Zhou and Yong-Yeol Ahn},
title = {Geography and Similarity of Regional Cuisines in China},
journal = {PLOS ONE},
volume = {8},
number = {11},
pages = {e79161},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0079161},
eprint = {1307.3185},
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Recipe data show that geographic proximity, more than climate similarity, predicts similarity among Chinese regional cuisines, a Computational gastronomy view of Food culture.