On the heels of the news that a
Japanese chef won Italy's first World Pasta Championship comes word
of the world's largest lasagne being turned out in Poland. Further
support, I suppose, for the title of John F. Mariani's latest book,
How Italian Food Conquered the World.
As Cesare Prandelli
and the Italian soccer team settled into quarters in Krakow in
advance of the 2012 European Soccer Championship quarter-finals, a
nearby Italian restaurant – yes, I did say a nearby Italian
restaurant in Krakow – decided to honor the players by putting
together a little lunch. Ten hours later, the 15,432-pound lasagne
was ready to be cut into ten-thousand pieces and served.
Of course,
Trattoria Giancarlo's executive chef, Giancarlo Russo, wasn't sure
the players' training diet would allow them to enjoy any of his
creation, but he expressed the hope that “they can try just a
little bit.”
The Guinness folks
awarded the restaurant a world record for cooking the largest
lasagne.
No word on how
leftovers will be dealt with, but everybody knows lasagne is better
the next day.
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