[net.cooks] spaghetti carbonara, a national dish

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