About this atlasItaly by Plate
An atlas of 120 Italian dishes. Across 18 regions, each entry pairs the dish’s story with a full recipe for American home cooks who love the details.
Starting point
Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy and Tucci in Italy were the atlas’s main inspiration. The dishes shown in Italy shaped the catalog and set the research in motion. Italy by Plate is independent and unaffiliated with either series.
Choosing dishes
Every entry is a prepared dish clearly shown on screen in Italy, with an established regional or community tradition. Drinks, standalone products, contemporary fusion, and chef inventions without a traditional basis are excluded.
The recipes
Research starts with Italian-language sources, favoring regional food authorities and cooks with local standing, alongside established publications. Several sources are compared, and each recipe follows one coherent regional tradition. Where a television version differs from a recognized regional standard, the standard guides the recipe. Kitchen notes explain unfamiliar ingredients and distinctions that matter in an American kitchen. The aim is a recipe a cook from its home region would recognize.
Food photography generated with AI.
Write to us
Send corrections to recipes, Italian names, or regional details to hello@italybyplate.com. Family or regional versions of a dish and general notes are welcome too.
Map data
Regions: Istat, CC BY 4.0. Lakes, lagoons, rivers and towns: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL; towns by way of Overture Maps. Relief at closer zooms: Copernicus DEM, © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Built-up areas: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium, CC BY 4.0. Relief, neighboring countries and rivers at wider zooms: Natural Earth, public domain. Place coordinates: Wikidata, CC0.
Type
Literata, SIL Open Font License.