Italian cuisine: globalized and still authentic?

Italian cuisine seduces all over the world to the point of weighing nearly 230 billion euros in 2018 according to Forbes magazine © istock

By: Chantal Lorho Follow

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With its pastas, pizzas, risotto or osso-bucco, Italian cuisine seduces all over the world.

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It weighs nearly 230 billion euros in 2018, or nearly 10% of global catering according to Forbes magazine.

So much success which arouses the envy and the appetite of copiers… How to explain the success of transalpine cuisine?

How to ensure that it retains the quality that makes its reputation?

With:

François-Régis Gaudry

, author of

On going to taste Italy (co-published by Marabout / France Inter)

, producer of the program On going to taste on

France Inter

.

Jean-Baptiste Malet

, journalist and author of

The Empire of Red Gold: Global Survey on Industrial Tomatoes (Fayard)

Meron Sikre,

manager of Sale e Pepe restaurant in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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