Community challenges

A new mission every month

A village to discover, a dish to taste, a tradition to tell. What counts is the quality of what you bring, not how often you take part.

Challenge in progress November 2026 · Taste 23 days left

A dish you’ve never ordered

Pick something you don’t know from the food dictionary, try it and tell us about it.

The most precise tip ends up on the dish’s page

The other challenges

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    February 2027 · Tell

    The trade that is disappearing

    The weaver, the pasta maker, the boatbuilder: tell us about someone who still practises an old trade.

  • Coming up

    January 2027 · Visit

    A ghost village

    Walk into one of Calabria’s abandoned villages and tell us what remains.

  • Coming up

    December 2026 · Explore

    The Sila out of season

    The plateau when nobody is there: the lakes, the larch pines, the silence.

Visit and taste

Stamp the place from your phone or tick the tasting during the challenge days: it shows as completed in your passport.

Tell

Write your contribution on the challenge page. It appears once the editors approve it.

The best, not the most

At the end of the month the editors pick the most useful contributions and highlight them with an award.

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