I love Italian food -- eating it and making it. Do you enjoy it?
Yes I do!  I'm trying to find the perfect lasagna recipe.  I'm doing a lot of research.
Oh, I love lasagne. I make my own noodles as well as the sauce. 
Wow.  That's amazing.  I read where lasagne originated in Italy during the Middle Ages.  
I had no idea that it was that old! I wonder how the Middle Ages version resembles the lasagne we eat today.
square portions.
Origins and history.
Lasagne originated in Italy during the Middle Ages and has traditionally been ascribed to the city of Naples. The first recorded recipe was set down in the early 14th-century "Liber de Coquina" ("The Book of Cookery"). It bore only a slight resemblance to the later traditional form of lasagne, featuring a fermented dough flattened into a thin sheet, boiled, sprinkled with cheese and spices, and then eaten with the use of a small pointed stick. Recipes
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