Unless you’ve grown up in Columbus, Ohio, you’ve probably never heard of Johnny Marzetti. This isn’t a person, by the way. It’s a casserole. The easy-to-love meal is the stuff childhood dreams are made of: macaroni, ground beef, red sauce and cheese, baked together and dished out in thick slices like a lasagna. “My first sign that someone is not from Columbus,” says Jennifer Williams, owner of Weiland’s Market, “is [that] they go, ‘What’s Johnny Marzetti?’” The most common origin story of the Johnny Marzetti comes from the long-gone Marzetti…
