That's extremely ironic because Italian cuisine itself is heavily influenced by Italian American cuisine and its staples are largely recent within the last century. Their delusions about a rich and deep culinary culture and history is fake bullshit created after WWII to rebuild their national identity

Italian Marxist Alberto Grandi researches and writes about this

https://foodanddine.com/edibles-alberto-grandi-and-debunking-italian-culinary-myths/