The Italian government is putting up
Italian cuisine as this year's candidate to join the UNESCO list
of intangible cultural heritage, sources said Thursday.
The government has decided, on a proposal from the Ministers of
Agriculture and Food Sovereignty Francesco Lollobrigida and
Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano, to nominate the practice of Italian
cuisine for this year's UNESCO Representative List of Intangible
Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
The dossier will now be transmitted by the foreign Ministry to
UNESCO and the evaluation process will begin, which should be
completed by December 2025 at the latest, the sources said.
In its candidacy dossier, Italian cuisine is defined as a
"combination of social practices, rituals and gestures based on
the many local flavours that, without hierarchy, identify it and
mark it out.
"This mosaic of traditions reflects the country's biocultural
diversity and is based on the common denominator of conceiving
the moment of preparation and consumption of the meal as an
occasion for sharing and talking."
The dossier was written by Rome LUISS private University
Professor Pier Luigi Petrillo, who in the past wrote the bids
for many elements of the Mediterranean Diet as well as
Neapolitan pizzaiuoli pizza makers.
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