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Article: British find medieval lasagna recipe
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- August 24, 2003
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British find medieval lasagna recipe
By SUE LEEMAN Associated Press Writer
Sunday, August 24, 2003
London -- After a hard day's jousting, what a medieval English
knight needed was . . . a plate of lasagna.
And he apparently could have it, according to British researchers
who claim to have found a recipe for lasagna dating from the 14th
century -- long before Italian chefs came up with the delicious
concoction of layers of pasta topped with cheese.
"This is the first recorded recipe for a lasagna-based dish,"
researcher David Crompton said. "The Italian dish has tomatoes, which
were only discovered two centuries later in the New World."
Crompton didn't claim that the English invented lasagna, ...