Italian cuisine awarded Unesco cultural heritage status

NRC calls the UNESCO recognition of Italian cuisine into question:

“But this is less about the quality of pizza, pasta or risotto and more about concerns over the way in which the right-wing party Fratelli d’Italia has used the UNESCO campaign to stir up feelings of national pride, with party leader Meloni at the forefront. … It is not wrong to promote Italy’s culinary tradition, which is unique in many ways. But economic patriotism should not be confused with global cultural heritage policy, especially in these illiberal times.”