This month, How to Eat is tucking into the ever controversial carbonara. But do you need to serve it with spaghetti? Is a side salad welcome? And does it really have a role at breakfast?
In 2016, a French website ran a one-pot carbonara recipe using (steady yourself) farfalle pasta. It so enraged the Italian nation that La Repubblica ran a front-page opinion piece and a two-page spread about it. In the same paper. On the same day.
“Lads, it’s just bacon and eggs,” no one was heard to say as this hot mess morphed into “Carbonaragate”, with some calling tongue in cheek for the Italian PM to intervene. How to Eat (HTE) is, therefore, courting a full-blown diplomatic incident with this entry. But [weary, stoic sigh] that is the path that HTE has chosen. What is HTE – a series exploring how best to eat Britain’s favourite dishes – if it is not fearlessly shaking shibboleths and speaking truth to power (… about eggy pasta)?
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