US EditionItalian Cuisine Makes UNESCO History with Newly Minted Intangible Cultural Heritage Status
UNESCO recognized Italian cuisine for promoting social inclusion and intergenerational learning, with Italy holding nine agri-food traditions on the Intangible Cultural Heritage list, ANSA reported.
- On Wednesday, UNESCO's Intergovernmental Committee voted to add Italian cuisine as a whole to the Intangible Cultural Heritage list in New Delhi, making Italy the first country to have an entire cuisine added.
- Facing competition from 60 applicants from 56 countries, Italy secured inscription, with UNESCO highlighting Italian cooking's role in promoting social inclusion and well-being.
- Italy's diverse regional fare, from Tuscany to Veneto, includes Rome's carbonara and Campania's pizza Napoletana; ANSA reported Italy set a world record with nine agri-food recognitions among 21 total traditions.
- Industry leaders hailed the inscription, with Tommaso Brusò, North America CEO of Eataly, celebrating Italy's UNESCO status at a Thursday cafe opening and a Venice-born head calling it `a huge recognition to celebrate Italian cuisine`.
- The inscription joins Italian cuisine with other agri-food traditions like transhumance, the Mediterranean diet and truffle hunting, and follows earlier recognitions such as the Neapolitan 'Pizzaiuolo' practice and the French baguette in 2022.
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Fresh pasta, tasty sauces, artisanal olive oil... Italian cuisine has been listed on Wednesday as an immaterial cultural heritage of Unesco, a world first for a country that should further increase the tourist attraction of the peninsula. ...
The acknowledgment arrived yesterday in New Delhi. "L"Unesco recognized what we have always known: that Italian cuisine is a collective rite and one of the most powerful ways we have to tell who we are," said the chef patron of the saddle "Osteria Francescana" in Modena.
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