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Neapolitan pizza: World Heritage and G-astronomy

20/12/2017

François-Xavier Branthôme
Italy,
European Union
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An online petition supporting the "pizzaioli" attracted more than two million signatures.
Neapolitan pizza makers have long been one of the symbols of Italian cuisine across the world. Now they have officially been recognised as intangible heritage by UNESCO.

On 6 December, the UN’s Educational and Cultural agency announced it has added pizzaioli, as they are called in Italy, to the list of cultural treasures across the world in need of protection.
International recognition, Italians say, would safeguard the original pizza-making tradition from the many imitations across the planet… and even beyond. Just that week, astronauts made a pizza on board the International Space Station, giving new meaning to the word G-astronomy.

Sources: Euronews