I love cooking Italian cuisine. I took a class in Italy.
Wow that's awesome!  I'd love to be able to cook authentic Italian food.  It's some of my favorite kinds of cuisine.
It is so tasty and one of the most poplar in the world. People like to copy it, and I understand why.
Oh yeah, I don't blame them.  Italian cuisine is a great inspiration for all kinds of cooking techniques and experimentation.
It took centuries to develop Italian cuisine. Someone was working very hard on a good thing.
I'm curious as to how much Italian food evolved over time.  What were the first iterations of the dishes we know today like?
Even though the country did not unite until the 19th century, the cuisine can be traced back to as far as the 4th century BCE