🇮🇹 At the Ferrara Bakery in Little Italy on Wednesday, the kitchen crew was busy making Christmas struffoli.
“It’s these little balls, actually like a street zeppole is a derivative, and they’re fried or baked, depending on your grandma,” co-owner Ernest Lepore said.
It’s just one of a myriad of foods that make up Italian cuisine, beloved around the world for its freshness and variety.
On Wednesday, the U.N.’s cultural agency UNESCO added the rituals surrounding Italian food preparation and consumption to its list of “intangible heritage,” a nod to the cuisine’s massive global influence.
Lou Di Palo’s family has run their specialty food store on Grand Street for 100 years this year. He said when Italians immigrated around the globe they brought their food with them, and the rest is history.
“Italian food is loved all over the world,” he said.
Asked why Italian food deserves the UNESCO designation, Ferrara co-owner Adeline Lepore Sessa said, as she watched over the struffoli-making: “Because the Italians cook with love.”
🎤 Juliet Papa reports
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5 Comments
So good!
non c'è nulla di italiano li'…
I ate italian food often in germany. My gfwas german and we ate Italian more than German. She prefered it.
E che c'entrano con la nostra cucina li? Questi sono americani , l' UNESCO ha riconosciuto la nostra cucina in Italia degli italiani quella vera, no degli americani con origini italiane😂
As a kid in Staten Island we called them Honey Balls.