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The Atlas

The World Tomato Table

Not every recipe. The world's tomato dishes, documented — country, region, dish, the form the tomato takes, the season it belongs to, and the story behind it.

The World Tomato Table

7
Countries documented
8
Dishes recorded
2
Recipes tested
4
Tomato varieties connected

Counted from records held, never estimated. The tally is small because the work is real.

What this is, and what it is not

The Table records dishes in which the tomato is genuinely important — not dishes that happen to contain one. Every entry states how central the tomato is, what form it takes, and whether a traditional variety can honestly be identified. Where it cannot, we say so rather than invent a lineage.

Culinary history is researched from named sources and cited. Recipe wording, testing and photography are our own; we do not rewrite other people's recipes. A dish is marked tested only once the desk has cooked and eaten it.

Every country in the world is in the register below. Most are awaiting their first dispatch, and the page will say so plainly. A country's entry is earned by research, not generated to complete the alphabet.

8 dishes on record

Documented so far

A

B

I

Italy

S

Spain

T

Türkiye

The country register, A–Z

Every internationally recognised country, listed whether or not we have been there yet. Awaiting our first dispatch means exactly that.

A

B

C

D

E

F

  • FijiAwaiting our first dispatch
  • FinlandAwaiting our first dispatch
  • FranceAwaiting our first dispatch

G

H

I

  • IcelandAwaiting our first dispatch
  • IndiaAwaiting our first dispatch
  • IndonesiaAwaiting our first dispatch
  • IranAwaiting our first dispatch
  • IraqAwaiting our first dispatch
  • IrelandAwaiting our first dispatch
  • IsraelAwaiting our first dispatch
  • ItalyDocumented

J

  • JamaicaAwaiting our first dispatch
  • JapanAwaiting our first dispatch
  • JordanAwaiting our first dispatch

K

L

M

N

O

  • OmanAwaiting our first dispatch

P

Q

  • QatarAwaiting our first dispatch

R

  • RomaniaAwaiting our first dispatch
  • RussiaAwaiting our first dispatch
  • RwandaAwaiting our first dispatch

S

T

U

V

Y

  • YemenAwaiting our first dispatch

Z

Countries not yet documented are not absent from the world's tomato cooking — only from our records. The Table grows one documented dish at a time.