La Parmigiana

This wonderful, rich and luscious vegetable dish is layered like a lasagna, and always tastes so much better the day after you’ve made it! Although the name of this dish might suggest that the dish comes from the fair city of Parma, this is confusing because the origins of the dish actually lie in and around Naples. I was first taught how to make the dish in the very traditional Neapolitan way—which calls specifically for long, oblong eggplants—in the town of Poistano at the home of one of