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I always think of ratatouille as a simple French country dish with a bit of hearty  Italian-ness thrown in. I’m always wondering how that happened. Actually, I don’t wonder about it at all, but to graduate from culinary school I had to write a paper for my course on Meta and Meme: Origins within Orange Peels and the Cross-Cultural Cultivation of Dish Discourse.

My advisor, Dr. Charles Fox, chastised me for using the phrase “lasagne-like”, but he pointed out that Italian and French may well have merged to form something utterly  new. Cultural mingling across national borders, and all that. When it comes down to it, people just end up meeting. One thing leads to another and pretty soon they’re  already exchanging peasantries.