A world of regional recipes
Beyond the dish on the menu.
Every country has a handful of famous dishes and hundreds more that stay in local kitchens, passed on by word of mouth. Beyond the Plate is a small, open place to collect them by continent, country and region, one recipe and one story at a time.
How Beyond the Plate grows
A site only works once people are filling it. So the community comes first, and the platform follows when cooks ask for it.
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Cook and write
The first recipes and stories are published here, written from the kitchen, with ingredient names in the language of the dish.
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Open the table
Home cooks, mostly from the diaspora, add dishes from their own families and regions. Anyone can share one.
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Build the platform
Profiles, search and a feed arrive once contributors are already posting and want a better place to do it.