Just about everyone I know likes lasagna. It's kind of like a cake made with pasta, sauce and a cheese frosting, right? The pasta gets all puffed up from cooking in the sauce, the cheeses melt and the sauce is where a good lasagna recipe comes together. You need to have a good sauce that hits all the right notes. Lasagna is typically associated with Italy where every region has a variation. Southern Italy is known for simple tomato sauces while northern Italy is known for white sauces. Lasagna actually originated in Greece. The predominate theory is that lasagna is large sheets of pasta dough cut into strips and the word "lagana" means a type of flat unleavened bread in Greek. The alternate theory is that it referred to a trivet or stand, Romans borrowed the word "lasanum" meaning cooking pot in Latin. At some point the Italians started to refer to the dish in which the lasagna was made; eventually the name of the food and the cooking dish became one, Lasagna.