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Recipe News: Ignore lure of quick-fix recipes for best eggplant Parmesan dish
In a category that pits pizza against the illustrious spaghetti and meatballs, and fettuccine Alfredo against pasta e fagioli, eggplant Parmesan comes out a decisive victor in the cutthroat competition of Italian comfort food. It is one dish that boasts traces of rustic "old country" roots, bringing its most primitive, original form to the new world; it is a recipe that seems to have been created in everyone's Italian grandmother's kitchen in prewar Palermo; and most importantly, it is perhaps the favorite dish of any Italian restaurant right here in the United States. Is this not Italian comfort food at its finest?
The eminence of eggplant Parmesan is unrivaled. Despite its aged reputation, it is continuously found in the fanciest of Italian restaurants, quaint "fast-food" Italian cafes, and even local pizzerias. It has a flavor that never grows old, and its ubiquity as a dish leaves it floating somewhere between gourmet food and an easy-to-make back
