Cucinetta is an editorial Astro 7 theme built for recipe blogs, food magazines, seasonal cooking sites, independent publishers, and small culinary brands.
The theme is designed for static-first publishing with structured recipe content, fast page loads, minimal dependencies, and reusable Astro components. Recipes are managed through Astro content collections with validated frontmatter for titles, excerpts, categories, authors, images, servings, timing, ingredients, instructions, tags, drafts, and featured posts.
Key Features
- Built with Astro 7 and TypeScript
- Warm recipe magazine and food blog design
- Home, recipes, categories, about, contact, privacy, RSS, robots, sitemap, and 404 pages
- Astro content collections for structured recipe publishing
- Validated recipe schema with ingredients, instructions, timing, servings, difficulty, tags, authors, and cover images
- Featured, latest, seasonal, and category-based recipe sections
- Recipe archive with search and filtering
- Rich recipe pages with facts, ingredient checklists, serving controls, unit toggles, instruction timelines, related posts, and share actions
- Reader review UI with rating summaries and local demo submissions
- Config-driven site metadata, navigation, social links, newsletter settings, and SEO defaults
- Canonical URLs, Open Graph, Twitter/X cards, RSS feed, robots.txt, and sitemap generation
- WebSite JSON-LD and Recipe JSON-LD structured data
- Accessible skip link, landmarks, labelled forms, native mobile navigation, and visible focus styles
- Responsive light/dark design tokens
- Self-hosted Fraunces and Inter fonts
- Local Lucide icons
- Optimized Astro images from local assets
- Minimal dependencies and static-first output
- Deployable to Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, or any static host
Best For
- Food blogs
- Recipe websites
- Independent food magazines
- Recipe developers
- Cooking instructors
- Seasonal cooking sites
- Small culinary brands
- Newsletter-led food publishers
- Editorial kitchen journals
- Static recipe archives
