Cultured Palate: Dishes from Italy
| May 10, 2017
4. Pasta Carbonara
Many restaurants in North America start their pasta carbonara with a healthy pour of cream. In Italy, home and restaurant chefs make the best carbonara in the world using an emulsion of eggs and oil, heated through so that they coat the strands of pasta, but not so hot that the eggs scramble. The most decadent carbonara is finished off with a handful of chopped guanciale, charcuterie made of cured pork jowl. Get the best traditional carbonara at Da Enzo restaurant in Rome’s trendy Trastevere neighborhood.
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