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comfort food's reigning monarch, equally at home in microwaves and Michelin kitchens
means A baked or stovetop dish of macaroni pasta bound in a creamy cheese sauce, ranging from boxed convenience food to gourmet indulgence.
from A plainspoken American shortening of "macaroni and cheese." "Macaroni" comes through Italian *maccheroni*, a type of tube pasta, with roots possibly in a word for a kneaded dough or barley dish. "Cheese" descends from Old English *cīese*, ultimately from Latin *caseus*. Pasta-and-cheese dishes are old in Europe, and the combination crossed the Atlantic early — famously, Thomas Jefferson is often credited with popularizing a baked macaroni-and-cheese dish in America, though variations long predated him. The cozy clipped nickname "mac and cheese" is a later, casual American flourish.
- presidential roots
- Thomas Jefferson served it at an 1802 state dinner
- boxed empire
- Kraft sells around one million boxes daily
- depression hero
- Cheap boxed version fed families through the 1930s
- medieval ancestor
- A 14th-century cookbook described pasta with cheese
- noodle math
- Macaroni's hollow shape grabs and holds extra sauce
kraft mac and cheese — first boxed version launched 1937, now sells over 1 million boxes daily in us
baked mac and cheese — soul food staple at soul vegetarian restaurant in atlanta since 1994
lobster mac and cheese — signature dish at neptune oyster in boston, costs $28