Strata

I picked up a breakfast Strata from the prepared foods counter at Whole Foods the other day (good, hearty fare). Anyone know the history and origin of the Strata? I did a search and found recipes but no background.

'google' yielded no answers, but...

since it is considered a main dish, (savory bread pudding, or otherwise, an egg casserole), utilizing - day or two, old bread, eggs and the addition of (whatever) meats, cheeses and/or vegetables...

it's logical to assume that it's origins' are rooted in obscure, italian, 'peasant cuisine'.

btw... someone else was stumped for an answer (to your same query), on a site called 'hungrybrowser, back in 2002.

Cook's covered the experimental data in '01, and their recipe is a winner. But I just looked, and no background.

Best strata I've ever had was in the Pitt U. at Jonestown cafeteria one summer when they were catering a conference. Fabuluous! I asked one of the 'lunch ladies' about it and she said the manager brought the recipe from her family, which was Italian+Middle European of some sort.

Geo

The board is stumped, who would have thought? I'll need to do my own dirty work now, and see what I can come up with.

'stumped' as in...

hardly willing to crawl into a mesopotamiac era cave, to retrieve an answer.

eggs, meat, bread and cheese - a thousand years from now...

whattya gonna be asking.... who invented the egg mcmuffin?

jellobee wrote:whattya gonna be asking.... who invented the egg mcmuffin?

Now that's an easy one.

really???

we all know who successfully marketed it...

but who really 'invented' it?