Yep, but the contents of the article remain anyway largely nonsense.

The (queer) idea seems to be that Italian food is not traditional if it is not made from native ingredients, and that imports from the Arabic period (827-902) in Sicily do not count as Italian food, as well as anything in the post-columbian period.

Even jujubes (originally imported by the Romans and - quite frankly - of no relevance whatsoever) are somehow considered non-traditional.

This, BTW, is pure fantasy:

>The threat was great enough to drive Italy’s environmental agency to erect a chain-link wall around parts of Rome.