Italian food
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Food
What is Pizza? Types of Pizza
The story of the invention of this everyday household name depends on how you describe it. If you think of pizza as oven-baked bread, it has its origins in the ancient Middle East. If pizza must have toppings, it originated with the ancient Romans and Greeks, who baked flatbreads and topped them with available, local spices and olive oil. But the pizza we all know today, made with tomato sauce, cheese and a variety of toppings, originated in Italy. It became popular in Naples in the 18th century as a…
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Food
What is Lasagna?
Lasagna, a pasta dish of Italian origin, is often made with ruffled noodles and tomato or white sauce. Lasagna, in the singular, is a southern Italian variation of northern Italian lasagne, in the plural. The name is thought to come from Ladinum, a Latin word for cooking vessel, although some sources refer to it as the Greek flatbread lagan, which dates back to at least the time of Augustus Caesar (63 BCE−14 CE) in Italy. Modern Lasanga Known from Lasagna in its modern form, made with a meat sauce such…
