Interesting Facts About Lasagna

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Lasagna is a pasta that uses flat noodles to create layers of vegetable, meat, cheese and sauce to create a yummy dish. There are several facts about lasagna that people are completely unaware of, these facts actually make cooking lasagne a lot more interesting than it already is. Every time you try out a new lasagne recipe, remember these facts and enjoy even more!

- The plural of lasagna is lasagne. In Italy, they always only use lasagne when they refer to lasagna.

- The word lasagna authentically meant the pot in which the dish was cooked rather than the noodles itself. It is actually believed to be derived from the Greek word meaning ‘chamber pot’ - lasanon.

- Lasagna is only made with either flat noodles or rippled noodles.

- Lasagna was called "losyns" in Middle English.

- Lasagna is the favourite of cartoon character cat called Garfield.

- The original Lasagna recipe didn’t have tomatoes since it was discovered in the thirteenth century. At that time, tomatoes weren’t known in Europe.

- You can even make lasagna in the ...
... Dishwasher! Yes, believe it or not, a process actually allows you to cook the recipe without using your oven in a dishwasher.

- Some lasagna recipes can be carried out without the noodles being precooked. Layering the lasagne allows it to cook in the dish itself!

- Lasagna was responsible for a diplomatic dispute between England and Italy.

- In 2003, researchers studying the The Forme of Cury, a medieval cookery book, in the British Museum found a recipe for a type of lasagna dish prepared by chefs for the King in 1390.

- The most important ‘Lasagna’ to have ever lived is the late Dr Lou Lasagna, considered to be one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.

- Lasagna supposedly cost the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club a lot of money. They said the lasagna dish was responsible for costing them £14 million after several players who ate it pie fell ill before an important match against West Ham. The players were later found to have contracted norovirus before even arriving at the hotel that served the lasagna.

- Another illness known as the lasagna syndrome, which is a computer enthusiast's term for an excess of overlapping browser windows.

- An artist known as Weird Al Yankovic did a parody of the song La Bamba and called it Lasagna.

Author Bio

Rajiv Tiwari is an out and out gourmet whose love of food has made him travel to all top food destinations. In this bouquet of articles Rajiv discusses some quick tips on food recipes, and shows us how you can make people enchanted with lipsmacking food recipes.lasagna