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Basic carbonara from a delicious hole-in-the-wall in Florence, Italy.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you ask them what kind of cream and bacon they used, so we can make it at home ๐ŸšŽ

Looks delicious, one of my favorite pastas.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ham/bacon they use is guanciale and the sauce is actually not made from cream but instead eggs. They are added into the pasta while it's still hot, which cooks them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know, I was trolling a bit.

There's two shops here in Berlin that sell guanciale, and pecorino romano is quite easy to find too. It took me a few years to perfect my carbonara, but I can make it quite good nowadays.

If you go into any restaurant and order carbonara here, you get cream and bacon. Oh, oh, and the last time I was in the US, I had to see the Olive Garden with my own eyes. I got some trolly pictures there, take a look at their idea of what carbonara is:

A photo of Olive Garden menu with a picture of their carbonara dish.

Took me a while to understand where the name carbonara comes from. In Italy it means the coal miner. So you put enough black pepper to it that they look like a little coal pieces sprinkled around the pasta. Delicious.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh lol, I love how the "chicken alfredo" is practically more similar to a genuine carbonara than the one they have.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the traditional Italian pasta with chicken and milk.