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Why does a seemingly simple pasta dish provoke so many arguments about how it should be cooked?
In Part One of The Mystery of the History of Carbonara, we travel back through the dish’s surprisingly tangled past, uncovering a forgotten newspaper report from 1939 and following a trail that leads to the mountains of Umbria — and a pasta tradition considerably older than the carbonara we know today.
