Yesterday, Italian cuisine gained a new honor, becoming the first gastronomic style to be recognized as intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO, the UN's cultural body.

But as DeMazane reports, American cooks face a new potential tariff that may double the cost of an essential part of that cuisine, pasta from Italy.

This is Cavatapi.

For Diana Calcano, pasta is part of her family's history.

She manages Bache, an Italian grocer in Delhi, in Washington, D.C., and nearby Bethesda, Maryland,

which her parents founded almost 50 years ago.

It's a lot of connection with our customers.

It's generation after generation.

So their fathers, and then they brought their children,

and then now they bring their children for pasta and pizza night.

But one of the store's staples, pasta from Italy, may soon be under threat.

Fin spaghetti, Bucatini, then I also ordered Orakieti, forcing her to stock up on what she can.

Some customers have asked us, oh, are you going to still be carrying some pastas?

And we just kind of started, you know, snowballing and writing down a bunch of things

and trying to figure out how we were going to handle it. VACC is one of many businesses across

the country making preparations after a recent announcement from the U.S. Department of Commerce.

As early as January, pasta from 13 major Italian producers will face a 92% tariff on top of the existing 15% tariff on all goods from Europe.

That's nearly 107% in all.

It's giving me goosebumps thinking about that right now.

When I found out that that amount,

it really did hit a little bit because I was just like, man,

it was uncertain, not knowing if people were willing to pay it,

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