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> Tomato usage in Italian food is _relatively_ recent. Italy as a country is VERY recent. There is no such thing as "Italian food", it used to be small estates
by ekianjo 3y ago
> Tomato usage in Italian food is _relatively_ recent.
Italy as a country is VERY recent. There is no such thing as "Italian food", it used to be small estates in the peninsula for a very long time after the romans
- 0xbadcafebee 3y agoI always chuckle when Italian-Americans refer to coming from "the old country". I know they mean "the country I was born in", but it sounds like Italy is older than the USA, when the USA is nearly a century older.
- sph 3y agoYou know that you can have a shared culture even if you're not under the same flag. Italy the country might be young, but the Italian language, for example, has been around for 600+ years. The Divine Comedy is from 1308.
- ekianjo 3y agoLanguage is only a tiny part of the culture. People with the same language have been killing each others over differences on cultures for aeons