Chi siamo
About Nonnario
Nonnario is an independent editorial project: a reference book of Italian recipes, in English, where every recipe shows the documents it rests on.
Il progetto
What Nonnario is
Many of Italy's dishes are argued over more than they are written down. Nonnario collects the traditional recipes of the twenty regions and, for each one, says how strong its evidence is: an official text of the European Union, a recipe deposited with a Chamber of Commerce or a notary, a consortium or town standard, or a tradition that serious Italian sources agree on. Every page lists those sources and the month they were last checked. How the recipes are sourced
The recipes are written as precise procedures, so that someone who has never made a dish gets the same result: exact amounts, temperatures, times and rests, and a check at every stage. Nonnario is free to read, with no account and no paywall.
Indipendenza
Independent
Nonnario belongs to no publisher, food company or producers' body, and no recipe is paid for. If Nonnario works with partners one day, such as consortia, producers or shops, they will never change what a recipe says, and anything paid for will be marked as such.
Le licenze
Using Nonnario's recipes
Nonnario's recipes, texts, data, drawings and images are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0). You may quote, share and adapt them for non-commercial purposes, as long as you credit Nonnario and link the recipe's page. Commercial use, such as republishing recipes on a website with advertising, in an app or in a book, needs Nonnario's written permission: write to hello@nonnario.com.
Search engines and AI systems are welcome, separately from that licence: they may read and index the site, quote it in their answers and learn from it, as its robots.txt says. Please cite the recipe's page and the month its sources were checked.
The licence covers only what is Nonnario's own. The official texts a recipe follows belong to their authors (cite the document listed under the recipe's sources); the map's boundaries are ISTAT data published by openpolis under CC BY 4.0; the typefaces have their own licences (see Credits).
I dati
Recipes as data
Every recipe is also published as clean text and as data, beside its page: its address without the final slash, ending in .md (Markdown) or .json, as in spaghetti-alla-carbonara.md. A program that asks a recipe page for Markdown gets it directly. The catalogue lists them all, and llms.txt is a short guide to the site for AI assistants. They carry the same sources, levels and check dates as the pages, under the licence above. AI assistants that support MCP can connect to Nonnario's server at https://nonnario.com/mcp, which finds recipes and scales them to any number of servings, as the recipe pages do; other agents can ask at https://nonnario.com/a2a.
Contatti
Contact
To report a mistake in a recipe, point to a source we have missed, ask to reuse the recipes or propose working together, write to hello@nonnario.com. Corrections are checked against the sources like any recipe, and the page shows the month of the new check.
Crediti
Credits
Region and province boundaries are drawn from ISTAT data as published by openpolis/geojson-italy under the CC BY 4.0 licence; the cities on the map, with their positions, come from Wikidata, and the countries around Italy from Natural Earth (public domain). Headings are set in Bodoni Moda, a revival of the types of Giambattista Bodoni of Parma, and labels in Jost, an open revival of Futura, both by Indestructible Type under the SIL Open Font Licence.