Well attestedNamed from the place
Bolognese sauce
noun · first attested 19th century
Bologna serves its ragu with flat egg pasta; the spaghetti version is a foreign habit.
A slow-cooked Italian meat sauce built on minced beef, soffritto, a little tomato, and milk or wine.
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- 19th century
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- noun
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Bologna
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Bolognese sauce
Pellegrino Artusi printed a Bologna style meat sauce in 1891, and the city's chamber of commerce later registered an official recipe of its own. Spaghetti bolognese is largely a British and American creation; in Bologna the sauce meets tagliatelle or goes into lasagne.
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