Italian cooking has been awarded special cultural heritage status by the United Nations' cultural agency Unesco. National favourites including pizza are already on Unesco's list of "intangible cultural heritage", but now Italian cooking traditions and the way they are practiced and transmitted have»»»

Customers sit at a restaurant in Trastevere district on the first day of reopening from the COVID-19-related lockdown April 26, 2021, in Rome. On Wednesday, UNESCO declared Italian cuisine an intangible cultural practice. File Photo by Giuseppe Lami/EPA Dec. 10 (UPI) -- The United Nations' cultural»»»