Lasagne alla Finanziera–Lasagna in the Financier’s Style–is a particular preparation in the Piedmont region of Italy. This preparation—and any with the name finanziera—is a nineteenth-century or perhaps eighteenth-century invention. One finds this kind of preparation in the province of Turin, but also in Lombardy and Liguria as well in French cuisine. So-named dishes are probably […]
Comfort of Meatballs
May 23, 2017 by Leave a Comment
There’s something very comforting about meatballs. They are, in fact, comfort food, and whether one ate them as part of spaghetti and meatballs or in a meatball hero as a child, they remain the paragon of comfort. In my research over decades concerning the cuisines of the Mediterranean in general and Italian in particular–the kafta […]
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