I love Italian food!  Typically when people talk about Italian food it's from Italy!  Do you like it?
I love Italian food but I'm only familiar with the Americanized versions like pasta and pizza. It's really good though.
Well there have been significant changes with the discovery of the New World - with potatoes, tomatoes, bell peppers, maize and sugar beets, esp introduced in the 18th century!
Pasta was actually invented in China, not Italy. A lot of those foods do sound very Italian.
I didn't know that about pasta!  I know Italian food has such an abundance of taste, and is one of the most popular and copied cuisines in the world.