> I find a lot of sophistication in Italian cooking, especially accompanied by a good wine.
You can find sophistication in ramen too. But Italian cuisine revolves mostly around very simple dishes with little preparations (including the most famous pasta or pizza) and in our every day life we eat lots of vegetables, often raw.
Other cuisines in Europe are generally require way more steps/preparations/ingredients.
Anything requiring skills may require a lifetime to be perfected, that includes making a burger.
But that doesn't make dishes or a cuisine sophisticated per se.
To me sophistication requires knowledge and mastery even if you need to make a very basic and the result is not good, think of a beef Welligton or roast beef or a soup d'onion.
Those are all much more complex dishes than making a pizza, they require more work, more ingredients, more time, more preparations.
You can find sophistication in ramen too. But Italian cuisine revolves mostly around very simple dishes with little preparations (including the most famous pasta or pizza) and in our every day life we eat lots of vegetables, often raw.
Other cuisines in Europe are generally require way more steps/preparations/ingredients.