Parmeyawn
DorothyMantooth asks:
“I know it’s called ‘Chicken Parmesan’, but my recipe uses mozzarella cheese instead of parmesan. What gives?”
Please stop boring me. This is a common and barely forgivable confusion of Italian cuisine generally found on menus of suburban strip mall eateries and apparently within cultures of former Soviet States. The dish is actually termed Parmigiana, as it originates from the Italian city of Parma (as does the cheese). Another story claims the name to be derived from the Italian word “parmiciana,” which refers to shutter slats or some ridiculous bullshit. I choose not to believe this, because Ockham’s Razor.
Going forward I will explain that the dish comes from the Parma region of Ohio and was made famous by the city’s most honored son, Mike “The Miz”.
