This is more poignant when you realize French cuisine basically just steals from other cultures and calls it theirs. Macarons? It was Catherine de Medici’s ITALIAN pastry chef that she brought with her from Italy that invented them (hence why they use Italian meringue.)
Sorry for the French bashing but there was a time when Italian food was considered “lower” than French and I’m so glad that these days – it’s getting due!
5tr82hell
About time. I’m tired of convincing french people our food is better. Keep your sticky cheeses!!!
ConclusionAlarmed882
That’s wonderful news.
It would be nice if we could love Italian cuisine and respect the cuisines of other countries and cultures, but I guess not.
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Counter-point to the “world’s first”:
French art de la table and Mexican traditional cuisine are already inscribed
https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/gastronomic-meal-of-the-french-00437?RL=00437
https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/traditional-mexican-cuisine-ancestral-ongoing-community-culture-the-michoacan-paradigm-00400?RL=00400
As it should. It’s magnificent.
This is more poignant when you realize French cuisine basically just steals from other cultures and calls it theirs. Macarons? It was Catherine de Medici’s ITALIAN pastry chef that she brought with her from Italy that invented them (hence why they use Italian meringue.)
Sorry for the French bashing but there was a time when Italian food was considered “lower” than French and I’m so glad that these days – it’s getting due!
About time. I’m tired of convincing french people our food is better. Keep your sticky cheeses!!!
That’s wonderful news.
It would be nice if we could love Italian cuisine and respect the cuisines of other countries and cultures, but I guess not.
Mexico would like to have a word:
[https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/traditional-mexican-cuisine-living-heritage-societies-and-planets-wellbeing](https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/traditional-mexican-cuisine-living-heritage-societies-and-planets-wellbeing)
Other items/food cultures:
[https://guide.michelin.com/us/en/article/features/foods-on-unesco-intangible-cultural-heritage-list](https://guide.michelin.com/us/en/article/features/foods-on-unesco-intangible-cultural-heritage-list)