Italian Cuisine Is So Good UNESCO Just Recognized It
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The agency added dozens of nominees to its annual list of the world’s “intangible cultural heritage,” celebrating international customs and cuisine.
Neapolitan pizza-making's 2017 UNESCO listing drove a 284% jump in professional courses, according to a study by Rome's Unitelma Sapienza University, while agritourism in the southern Italian island of Pantelleria grew 500% over a decade after its vine cultivation was inscribed in the UNESCO list.
Iztapalapa's annual Passion Play began when the Mexico City borough vowed to organize a religious procession in gratitude for surviving a cholera epidemic in 1843, eventually evolving into a major cultural event.
It's a budget-friendly, carb-loaded bowl of noodles, rice, lentils and fried onions doused in a blazing hot sauce. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
UNESCO expresses strong concern over the renewed tensions between Cambodia and Thailand, including in the vicinity of the Preah Vihear Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage site. UNESCO calls for urgent protection of the
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