Food historian Alberto Grandi of the University of Parma claims that pizza is more of an American dish than an Italian one, along with spaghetti carbonara and parmesan.
Italian-American soldiers in Sicily during WWII were reportedly shocked that there were no pizzerias around. Carbonara was also considered obscure before the 1940s.
"For my father in the 1970s, pizza was just as exotic as sushi is for us today," the food historian claimed.Grandi posited that Italians have mythologized their cuisine to the point of inaccuracy. "When a community finds itself deprived of its sense of identity, because of whatever historical shock or fracture with its past, it invents traditions to act as founding myths," he explained.
Shortly after Grandi's interview, Italy’s ministers of Culture and Agriculture applied to have Italian cuisine entered into candidacy for a UNESCO World Heritage Site.Fun stories about food, relationships, the great outdoors and more.
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