5th World Week of Italian Cuisine: Iconic dish of Italian cuisine. Pomodoro by Pellegrino Artusi

Artusi occupies a very important place in the history of modern Italian cuisine. His passion for cooking led him to compiled a collection of 790 home-style recipes which he published at his own expense in 1891 as a manual called “Science in Cooking and the Art of Eating Well”. This became the first compendium of Italian home cooking during what was a historically important time for Italy, a country that had been unified a few decades ago but had yet to find a sense of cultural unity. Thanks to the resounding success of its various editions, the book was instrumental in giving a sense of culinary unity to the country.