by Karen Schwarzberg and Mike Gur­ney — De­spite the rise of a global cul­ture, de­li­ciously dis­tinct dif­fer­ences in diet still per­sist among var­i­ous na­tion­al­i­ties. Makes one won­der if, along with each cui­sine, comes a dis­tinc­tive mi­cro­biome. We now have the re­search tools needed to be­gin to ex­plore such pos­si­bil­i­ties.