Greek Pastitsio Recipe, (or Greek Lasagna - Greek Macaroni), is a favorite comfort food of mine, especially when I need to feed a crowd. It's a baked pasta dish with layers of pasta, topped with ...

“For me, today, pastitsio is pure comfort. But it’s not a dish that was around very often when I was growing up,” says Christina Xenos, a Los Angeles-based chef and cookbook author who won ...

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But Xenos tells me that pastitsio recipes were not always this exacting. Sometimes called Greek lasagna, the dish's Italian origins are not difficult to trace. "You will find Venetian influence ...