jaw@ames-lm.UUCP (James A. Woods) (05/01/84)
# "...But oh, dem bacon and dem egg..." -- Jack Kerouac, reading from "On the Road," with accompaniment of Steve Allen on free-form baby grand. Calvin Trillin, roving "real food" critic and author ("Alice, Let's Eat"), proclaimed it a national dish. The late Charles McCabe of the S.F. Chronicle wrote whole columns about it. I just eat the stuff, understanding viscerally its cultish appeal. So send us your carbonara recipe mods, garnishes, etc. It's hard to imagine improvement on something so simple: bacon, eggs, and pasta. But there's always preparation variants; like, do you cut up the bacon before frying it, or after, blah-de-blah. Hunger pangs striking ... -- James A. Woods {dual,hplabs,hao,research}!ames-lm!jaw P.S. Baco-bits need not apply.
riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (05/01/84)
I don't have a recipe, but I do have lots of fond memories... Spaghetti carbonara is such a popular dish among young people bumming around Italy that one of the big pop hits of '83 in Europe was a German/Italian reggae number entitled "Carbonara e una Coca Cola"! --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- {ihnp4,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle