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From Pizza Day to Risotto Day: how Italian food took over the calendar

By: francesca bezzone

If December is the month of family meals and panettone, January is often thought as that of restrained, healthy eating… just to begin the new year with a wholesome frame of mind. But how can we do that when this is the month when the whole world celebrate pizza?

Yes, the weekend that just ended, more precisely, Saturday 17th of January, was World Pizza Day, a moment to enjoy with the right amount of reverence and awe one of the planet’s favorite meals. From here, the pattern of Italian food world celebrations become, let’s just say, hard to ignore because Italy, more than most countries, appears to have turned its culinary repertoire into a sequence of internationally recognized dates.

Source: https://italoamericano.org

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