"When Mussolini started his domestic campaign to make Italy a self-sufficient country, he took aim at one of Italy’s most beloved foods—pasta.
He raised the fees associated with importing grains and insisted that Italians begin eating rice instead of pasta. He even had the support of the art movement known as the Futurists, who derided pasta as not being modern enough.Needless to say, the campaign didn’t work."
...The dictator even went so far as to write a poem on the matter, bidding his subjects to love bread but not to consume too much of it—and then, only eat what was made in the country.
He also pushed the Italian people to turn their back on a longtime staple—pasta.
He wanted farmers to devote their fields to raising rice instead, and he had a huge base of supporters in the Futurist movement.
The Futurists were an up-and-coming art movement that derided anything that wasn’t on the cutting edge of modern.
They wanted Italy to be on the front lines of the future, and they saw one thing holding the entire country back—its love of pasta.
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