About

waffle.wiki is a small, slow encyclopedia about what people eat when they eat for pleasure. We start with desserts and street food because those two corners of cuisine carry the most history per bite — both are answers to specific times, specific cities, specific economies.

What we cover

Phase 1 is desserts and street food. Future phases extend to herbs, plants, animals, minerals, and chemical elements — the wiki of the physical world, page by page.

How we write

Every entry is a short magazine article: a one-line dek, a hero, the history, the technique, where to find it, and where it sits in a broader family of dishes. We cite our sources. We name our dates. We do not invent details for color.

Languages

Each entry is written natively in English, Korean, and Japanese — not machine-translated. A dish read in Tokyo should feel like it was written for a Tokyo reader.

Who runs it

A two-person editorial team plus a research assistant. We publish on a monthly issue cadence — see the Collections page for what landed when.