> The move to safeguard the Italian language joins an
> existing bid by the government to protect the country’s
> cuisine.
> It has introduced legislation to ban so-called synthetic
> or cell-based cuisine due to the lack of scientific > studies on the effects of synthetic food, as well as “to
> safeguard our nation’s heritage and our agriculture based
> on the Mediterranean diet,” Meloni’s Health Minister
> Orazio Schillaci said in a press conference.
I hope they plan to do something about the "tomatomania" that has gripped Italian cuisine in recent centuries. It must have been crushing for their cuisine be corrupted by an invasive new-world fruit.