HOUSE OF BOURBON

The House of Bourbon  is a European royal house of French origin, a branch of the Capetian dynasty.  By the 18th century, members of the Bourbon dynasty also held thrones in Spain, Naples, Sicily, and Parma. Spain and Luxembourg currently have Bourbon monarchs.The king that gave “Two Sicilies” kingdom to Italian Unity ruled only for a year from May1859 to February 1862. He was Francesco II Bourbon also called “lasagna king” by his father because of his passion for lasagna a kind of baked pasta that was very famous among food lovers in South Italy. Its recipe was in “Gattò di lasagnette alla Buonvicino” written by Ippolito Cavalcanti, duke of Buonvicino in 1843 and before him  Goethe in his diary “Italian travels” told about “ a delicate pasta made of fine semolina, hardly worked, boiled and with different shapes and he described Neapolitan life giving an idea of “maccheronari” job that were present at every corner and sold pasta. They were the inventors of street food.

Francesco II Bourbon was called

a)    lasagna king

b)    chicken king

c)    meat king

d)    lemon king

Goethe in his Italian travels told about

a)    a kind of liquor

b)    a kind of fruit

c)    a particular fish

d)    lasagna

 Neapolitan maccheronari invented

a)    street art

b)    street food

c)    house food

d)    court food

"LASAGNA KING"