"Italian cuisine is tradition, quality, creativity, but also innovation, wellbeing, and sustainability.” With these words, Italian Ambassador to the US Mariangela Zappia introduced the sixth edition of the Week of Italian Cuisine in the World, an initiative promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation through a rich program of events taking place across the country.

Her words stressed the focus of the 2021 edition: Italian cuisine between tradition, innovation, and sustainability. Ambassador Zappia emphasized American people’s passion for our food but, in particular, she underlined the role that food, cooking, and the agroindustry have in Italian-American bilateral relations, in a context where commercial exchange in 2021 has already surpassed the record-breaking results of 2019.