Whether it's bucatini pasta or Calabrian pizza or any of the other amazing culinary inventions Italians have graced us with, no one has ever gone away from an Italian meal hungry. Except, obviously, for more Italian food. If there is one thing Italians might be better at making than pasta, it's cookies. Cookies are present at any Italian celebration or gathering, per SF Gate, and boy, do they make a lot of them.

Italian biscotti seem to occupy a special place in the American imagination. The cookie we all know as biscotti are the long, half-crispy half-chewy, sticks you find at cafés, which are designed to be dipped in coffee. Dubbed "the cookie of the 90s", when they became all the rage on the café scene, biscotti have remained a popular snack that can be found nationwide, according to NPR.