National Lasagna Day History
National Lasagna Day is dedicated to appreciating lasagna. Lasagna is a flat-shaped pasta that is layered with sauce and various ingredients, the most popular including beef, spinach, cheese, or seafood. Lasagna is believed to have originated in Naples, Italy. The first lasagna recipe appears in The Liber de Coquina (The book of cooking/cookery), which is one of the oldest medieval cookbooks. Some have suggested that lasagna comes from the Greek word laganon, which stands for a flat sheet of pasta dough. Others however suggest that lasagna comes from a 14th-century British recipe called Loseyn, which included layering ingredients between pasta sheets. National Lasagna Day is observed on July 29th of every year.
National Lasagna Day seems to have been started in 2011 as a promotion for the layered pasta. It is observed annually on July 29th.
National Lasagna Day facts
According to Guinness World Records, the world's largest lasagna was created by Magillo Restaurant and Macro Supermarket in Wieliczka, Poland. On June 20, 2012, more than 5,000 people contributed to making the enormous lasagna that measured 25m by 2.5m and contained 800kg of meat, 500 liters of tomato sauce, 2,500kg of lasagna pasta sheets and 400kg of mozzarella cheese.
As per the USDA, 100g of lasagna contains 135 calories, 4.9g of fat and 15g of carbohydrate.
AllRecipes.com has reported that John Chandler has created the world's best lasagna. Chandler shared his recipe on the site in 2002. By 2013, the recipe had been pinned on Pinterest more than 25,000 times and has 10,423 ratings on AllRecipes.com. Every month, the recipe is viewed by 20 million visitors.
Lasagna… nature's perfect food - Garfield, a comic strip cat
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