What are the philosophical roots of Italy’s high food standards? While the answer is complex, we may be able to say they are still high because of postmodernism’s limited arrival. It is also the persistance of longer standing paradigms of thought and approaches to reality itself.   Postmodernism has not fully supplanted the cultural moorings of Italians’ culinary heritage.

Many philosophical approaches to food in Italy are pre-Modern, the epic of social movements that led to postmodernism. These millennia-old Italian approaches are tethered to the physical territory and ancestral practices.