Can you eat cultural heritage? Are you allowed to digest it? That will be a real, guilt-free possibility if Italy’s nomination of its Neapolitan pizza as a candidate for UNESCO’s Cultural Heritage List is accepted next year. On Friday, Italy’s national commission for UNESCO unanimously confirmed the Neapolitan pizza’s candidacy for the cultural heritage list, deeming it as a “central element of Neapolitan and Italian identity, and a symbol of the brand of Italy around the world,” according to a report in The Guardian. The candidacy of the Neapolitan pizza – a pizza from Italy’s Naples region – was backed by a...
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