my favorite food is italian.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Lasagne (; ; singular lasagna) are wide, flat pasta, and possibly one of the oldest types of pasta. \"Lasagne\", or the singular \"lasagna\", commonly refers to a dish made with several layers of lasagne sheets alternated with sauces and other ingredients, such as meats and cheese. 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. Other recipes written in the century following the \"Liber de Coquina\" recommended boiling the pasta in a chicken broth and dressing it with cheese and chicken fat, or in one case walnuts, in a recipe adapted for the Lenten fast. The traditional lasagne of Naples, \"lasagne di carnevale\", is layered with local sausage, small fried meatballs, hard-boiled eggs, ricotta and mozzarella cheeses, and sauced with a Neapolitan rag\u00f9. \"Lasagne al forno\", layered with a thicker rag\u00f9 and B\u00e9chamel sauce and which corresponds to the most common version of the dish outside Italy, is traditionally associated with Emilia-Romagna.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I love Italian food -- eating it and making it. Do you enjoy it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes I do!  I'm trying to find the perfect lasagna recipe.  I'm doing a lot of research."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh, I love lasagne. I make my own noodles as well as the sauce. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Wow.  That's amazing.  I read where lasagne originated in Italy during the Middle Ages.  "}, {"role": "user", "content": "I had no idea that it was that old! I wonder how the Middle Ages version resembles the lasagne we eat today. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It featured a fermented dough, flattened into a thin sheet, and then cheese was added.  It was eaten with a pointed stick.  "}, {"role": "user", "content": "You're kidding! So interesting. It sounds more like pizza on a stick than lasagne."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I know.  Later in Naples, they started adding local sausage, small fried meatballs, hard-boiled eggs, ricotta and mozzarella and sauce.  That sounds better to me:)"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ha, me too! Not real sure about the hard-boiled eggs though! LOL"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, I would definitely leave that out of my recipe.  "}]