Lasagna
Overview
 
Lasagna is a wide and flat type of pasta
Pasta
Pasta is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine, now of worldwide renown. It takes the form of unleavened dough, made in Italy, mostly of durum wheat , water and sometimes eggs. Pasta comes in a variety of different shapes that serve for both decoration and to act as a carrier for the...

 and possibly one of the oldest shapes. As with most other pasta shapes, the word is generally used in its plural form lasagne in Italy and the U.K. Traditionally, the dough was prepared in Southern Italy with semolina
Semolina
Semolina is the coarse, purified wheat middlings of durum wheat used in making pasta, and also used for breakfast cereals and puddings. Semolina is also used to designate coarse middlings from other varieties of wheat, and from other grains such as rice and corn.-Name:The term semolina derives from...

 and water and in the northern regions
Northern Italy
Northern Italy is a wide cultural, historical and geographical definition, without any administrative usage, used to indicate the northern part of the Italian state, also referred as Settentrione or Alta Italia...

, where semolina was not available, with flour and eggs. Nowadays in Italy, since the only type of wheat allowed for pasta is durum wheat, lasagne are made of semolina (from durum wheat) and eggs.
Quotations

We shall feast our grape-gleaners with lasagne so tempting to swallow in slippery ropes.

Robert Browning, "Englishman in Italy"

Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog.

Palindrome|Palindrome attributed to Baby Gramps|Baby Gramps

I never met a Lasagna I didn't like.

Garfield, paraphrasing Will Rogers

Jon: "Most of the Earth's surface is covered by water."Garfield: "Who cares? How much of it is covered by lasagna?"

"What a life it would be if you could come to mine for teaI'll pick you up at half past three, we'll have lasagna."

Noel Gallagher, from the Oasis song Digsy's Dinner

"Life is a minestroneServed up with parmesan cheeseDeath is a cold lasagneSuspended in deep freeze"

Lol Creme|Lol Creme / Eric Stewart|Eric Stewart, from the 10cc|10cc song Life Is A Minestrone

"You know, there's a million fine-looking women in the world, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of them just cheat on you."

Silent Bob from Clerks

 
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