US EditionItalian cooking and its rituals get UN designation as world heritage
UNESCO recognized Italian cuisine for its cultural rituals, sustainability, and biocultural diversity, marking the first entire national cuisine on the Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
- The United Nations cultural agency included Italian cooking and its rituals as part of the world's intangible cultural heritage.
- Italian premier Giorgia Meloni celebrated the designation, saying Italian cuisine is not just food but also culture, tradition, work, and wealth.
- Francesco Lenzi, a pasta maker in Rome, credited his passion for Italian cuisine to his grandmother who made ravioli when he was young.
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Italian cuisine has been officially inscribed by UNESCO on the List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, marking a historic milestone: it is the first time that it is recognized not a dish or a technique, but the entire gastronomic tradition of a country. The news was officialized in New Delhi, where the Intergovernmental Committee approved the candidacy. For the Meloni government, which has turned the table into a symbol of national…
The canederli are not Italians. It has been just two days since the Italian cuisine was proclaimed an immaterial heritage of the humanity of UNESCO and the first food and wine diatribe has already broken out. To trigger it, in the form of provocation, was the daily South Tyrolean Dolomiten, the most ancient German daily and bed of South Tyrol, which uses sarcasm and irony to tell the reactions after the Unesco recognition. Now, suddenly, the can…
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Italian cuisine gets UNESCO ‘intangible heritage’ status
The UN declared Italian food an “intangible cultural heritage,” the first time a national cuisine has been awarded the status, which Rome hopes will help boost tourism and fight gastronomic “fakes.” UNESCO, the UN’s cultural arm, regularly names historic sites and artifacts as cultural property, physical examples of a society’s heritage: Examples include Stonehenge or the Pyramids of Giza. But it also endorses non-physical things such as traditi…
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