10/12/2025
🏆UNESCO
Italian cuisine was added to UNESCO’s ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage’ lists at a meeting of the UN agency’s Intergovernmental Committee in New Delhi on Wednesday.
It is the first time a national cuisine in its entirety, rather than a single tradition or recipe, has won world heritage status.
The committee said that Italian cuisine is a “cultural and social blend of culinary traditions” and “a way to care for oneself and others, express love, and rediscover one’s cultural roots, offering communities an outlet to share their history and describe the world around them.”
The announcement, made on Wednesday during the UN cultural body’s assembly in Delhi, means Italian cuisine – from pasta and mozzarella to wine and tiramisu – will be inscribed on the coveted list of “intangible cultural heritage”.
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