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Learn the dishes connected to each destination, with practical recipes, cultural context and ingredients explained for readers outside Italy.
Discover Italy through food, places and traditions.
Discover Italy Through Its Flavours
Authentic recipes, regional traditions and food-led travel guides created in Italy for travellers who want to experience the country beyond the postcard.
Italy by Taste
Italy, One Region at a Time
Italy is not one cuisine. Every region, city and neighbourhood has its own ingredients, dishes, traditions and ways of eating.
Italy by Taste connects those flavours to the places they come from. Discover what to eat before you travel, understand the traditions behind the dishes and learn how to recreate them at home.
Our First Destination
Start With Rome
Rome is a city you can taste as much as you can see. Carbonara, cacio e pepe, supplì, artichokes, maritozzi and the neighbourhoods that shaped them are all part of the experience.
Explore our free Rome guides, traditional recipes and food stories, then take the next step with our complete 3-day Food & Travel Guide.
A new regional chapter
Taste Tuscany. Begin in Florence.
Bread soups, market mornings and a city worth exploring slowly. Discover Florence through its dishes, neighbourhoods and everyday food traditions, then bring three Tuscan recipes home.
Sardinia / Begin in Cagliari
An island with many tables
Start in Cagliari with market mornings, semolina pasta and a city walk. Then follow the island’s lagoon flavours, regional breads and pastoral traditions at your own pace.
Veneto / Begin in Venice
From the lagoon to the mainland table
Begin in Venice with Rialto mornings, cicchetti and a city walk. Then explore the Veneto through its rice, polenta, seasonal vegetables and regional traditions.
More Than a Recipe. More Than a Travel Guide.
Explore
Build your trip around neighbourhoods, markets, local food traditions and experiences that make each place feel different.
Understand
Discover why a dish belongs to a place, how people actually eat it and which traditions are worth knowing before you arrive.
Free to explore
Taste Rome Before You Go
Start with the essentials and build your own picture of Roman food culture.
What to Eat in Rome
12 traditional Roman dishes worth knowing before your trip.
Read the GuideThe 4 Famous Roman Pasta Dishes
Carbonara, cacio e pepe, gricia and amatriciana explained side by side.
Compare the PastasOne Day in Rome for Food Lovers
A complete free day that connects sightseeing with Roman food.
Follow the ItineraryTraditional recipes
Cook Italy at Home
A trip does not have to end when you leave. Our recipes are designed to help you understand the ingredients, technique and character of the dishes you discovered in Italy.
Browse All RecipesItaly by Taste
Taste Rome Like an Italian
3-Day Food & Travel Guide
Digital GuideItaly by Taste Guide
Taste Rome Like an Italian
3-Day Food & Travel Guide
Three days of Rome organised around food, neighbourhoods and the city’s essential sights. The downloadable guide brings the itinerary, practical advice, Roman food essentials, recipes, useful phrases and planning resources together in one place.
Discover the GuideDigital PDF. Download after purchase. No physical product will be shipped.
Created in Italy
Created in Italy. Built for Curious Travellers.
Italy by Taste is for people who do not want to treat Italian food as a checklist of famous dishes. We want to show how food changes from place to place, how traditions connect to everyday life and how a better understanding of what you eat can make a trip more memorable.
We research each destination carefully and expand region by region rather than trying to cover the whole country at once.
About Italy by TasteYour Next Taste of Italy Starts Here
Explore Lazio and Tuscany, learn their dishes and plan a trip around the places that make each region its own.