lasagna comes from the campania region of italy.
lasagna comes from the campania region of italy.
what region of italy does lasagna come from?
campania
immigrants from southern europe, namely sicily, campania, lazio, and calabria, appeared between 1880 and 1960 in new york, new jersey, pennsylvania, and eastern maryland hoping to escape the extreme poverty and corruption endemic to italy; typically none of them spoke english, but rather dialects of italian and had a culture that was more closely tied to the village they were born in than the high culture only accessible to those who could afford it at this time; many could not read or write in any language. they were employed in manual labor or factory work but it is because of them that dishes like spaghetti with meatballs, new york–style pizza, calzones, and baked ziti exist, and americans of today are very familiar with semolina based pasta noodles. their native cuisine had less of an emphasis on meat, as evidenced by dishes they introduced like pasta e fagioli and minestrone, but the dishes they created in america often piled it on as a sign of wealth and newfound prosperity since for the first time even cheap cuts of it were affordable: the american recipe for lasagna is proof of this, as mostly it is derived from the neapolitan version of the dish with large amounts of meat and cheese.
american cuisine
louis cesare lasagna was an internationally recognized and respected expert in clinical pharmacology. born in queens, new york in 1923, lasagna was raised in new brunswick, new jersey, by his italian immigrant parents. he graduated from rutgers university in 1943 and earned his medical degree from columbia university in 1947. during his time at rutgers university, he joined kappa sigma fraternity (gamma-upsilon). after completing a clinical research fellowship in anesthesia at harvard medical school, lasagna joined the faculty of johns hopkins university in 1954, where he established the first ever clinical pharmacology department. lasagna taught medicine and pharmacology at johns hopkins until 1970, when he accepted the position as the first chairman of the department of pharmacology and toxicology at the university of rochester's, school of medicine and dentistry, which he held for the next decade (1970–1980). early in his fourteen-year career at rochester, lasagna founded the tufts center for the study of drug development. in july 1984, the center moved with lasagna to tufts university, where he became dean of the sackler school of graduate biomedical sciences.
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