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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Hannah Twiggs

The most over-the-top Italian recipes in London – and how to cook them at home

Big Mamma’s legendary 10-layer lasagne is engineered for maximum impact - (Big Mamma)

There are restaurant dishes you order because you’re hungry and dishes you order because you want to feel big, silly pleasure. Nostalgia. A bit of theatre.

The Big Mamma restaurant group has always understood the second category far better than most. Long before “viral” became a strategy, its plates were built for spectacle – towering, molten, shaved, poured, torched – and for the kind of indulgence that feels faintly rebellious in a dining culture increasingly obsessed with restraint.

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