[Sca-cooks] Medieval Italian recipes for Lasagna was Re: Medieval English Lasagna

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net>:
>Hmmm... so we don't have any dating of lasagna in an italian manuscript
>before 1390? Or do we?

It's a little unclear, but we do have a claim that Italian recipes go 
back at least to the 14th century, of which most is before 1390. It 
seems more likely, statistically, that if there's a 14th-century 
recipe, it's from before 1390, rather than in the ensuing eleven 
years.

Of course, that's not intended as anything but speculation.

Regardless, it would seem to refute both English claims of having 
developed lasagne significantly before the Italians, and Italian 
claims that what the English developed (or acquired) was not actually 
lasagne. Whatever it was or was not, it appears to be nearly 
identical to what the Italians were making at the same time and 
calling lasagne.

In short, _everybody_ concerned just flunked history class.

Adamantius