Course 01
Cook the recipe.
Pick what you actually want to eat tonight. Step-by-step lessons read in the target language, with translation a tap away. Real recipes from real kitchens — no plastic-food vocabulary.
Learn. Share. Feast.
Mangia.Impara.Parla.
Speak Italian through the recipes you can't wait to cook — pasta, espresso, and the kitchens that taught them.
Join 32,400+ home cooks learning a new language.
Italiano · today
+12 XP today
7-day streak
🇮🇹Italian
🔥7⚡140❤5
Buongiorno, chef.
Pronto a cucinare in italiano?
Today's Feast
Tuscan Ribollita
Zuppa toscana
45 minA2 · Easy
WORDS
184
RECIPES
9
🥐
LESSON 4 · 60%
The Pasta Pantry
Home
Recipes
Culture
You
32,400+learners
180recipes
12cuisines
4.9★App Store
"Duolingo meets the kitchen counter."
How it works
Three courses,
one delicious habit.
Most apps teach you to order a coffee. We teach you to make the coffee — in the language of the people who perfected it. Cook the recipe, learn the words on the way, then practice them out loud.
Course 02
Learn the words.
Every ingredient you cooked with becomes a flashcard. Bite-sized drills between meals — translate, build sentences, listen, repeat. Streaks reward consistency, not cramming.
Course 03
Speak it out loud.
Roleplay ordering in the café, making dinner with a friend, asking the fishmonger what's fresh. Real-time pronunciation feedback — gentle, never schoolmarmish.
A whole new tab
A meal is rarely
just a meal.
Every dish carries the weight of who taught whom, who fled where, what grew when. The new Culture tab pulls those threads in beside the verbs. Read it like a good food magazine — then take what you've learned into a roleplayed conversation.
No. 04 · Tuscany
On bread that refuses to die.
In a region whose people once chose hunger over salt taxes, the bread was made flavourless on purpose. Stale, it didn't go to the chickens — it went into the pot.
That pot is ribollita, literally "reboiled". A peasant soup that absorbed everything the kitchen had: cavolo nero, last week's beans, an onion, the heel of yesterday's loaf. Cook it once, then again. By the second simmer it stops being a soup and becomes the dinner you didn't know you were owed.
Learn to say pane raffermo and you've earned the right to make it.
That pot is ribollita, literally "reboiled". A peasant soup that absorbed everything the kitchen had: cavolo nero, last week's beans, an onion, the heel of yesterday's loaf. Cook it once, then again. By the second simmer it stops being a soup and becomes the dinner you didn't know you were owed.
Learn to say pane raffermo and you've earned the right to make it.
Pairs with: Tuscan Ribollita · A2
6 min read · 14 new words
Modern food life
The 11 ways Parisians order a coffee.
"Un café" gets you espresso, full stop. "Un noisette" gets you respect. A short pronunciation guide for surviving the morning counter.
4 min read
Etiquette · México
Tacos al pastor & the lost art of the standing dinner.
You don't sit. You don't talk much. You eat two, you nod, you go. The shorthand language of the late-night taquería, taught by people who grew up at the counter.
5 min read
Two plans, one kitchen
Start free. Upgrade
when you're hungry for more.
No credit card to start. Cancel any time — your saved recipes and progress stay with you.
A nibble
To see if you'll come back for seconds.
$0/ free forever
- ✓1 cuisine · 3 lessons a week
- ✓Recipe library · 30 free recipes
- ✓Daily streak & word drills
- ✓Culture tab — 4 free stories / month
- —Speaking roleplays
- —Scan to translate
Most popular
A full feast
Everything. All cuisines. All conversations.
$9/ month, billed yearly
- ✓All 12 cuisines, unlimited lessons
- ✓Full recipe library + new recipes weekly
- ✓Speaking roleplays with AI feedback
- ✓Scan menus & packaging in any language
- ✓Culture tab · stories, etiquette, history
- ✓Family sharing · 4 cooks