In Italian cuisine ragu is a meat-based sauce that is commonly served with pasta.
The first documented recipe for a meat sauce, in which the cooked meat was an integral part of the sauce served with pasta, dates from the end of the 18th century.
After the early 1830s recipes for ragu appear frequently in cookbooks from the Emilia-Romagna Region.
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