BBC fixes Cacio e Pepe recipe after Italian outcry - Food & Wine

The BBC on Wednesday fixed a recipe
for Cacio e Pepe on the food page of its website after a faulty
previous version was called out by Claudio Pica, the head of the
Rome and Lazio branch of the Fiepet-Confesercenti business
association.


The first version listed four ingredients for the traditional
Roman dish – spaghetti, pepper, parmesan and butter.


But the original recipe does not feature butter and requires
pecorino cheese, not parmesan.


The BBC amended its recipe, but it still included a tip that
would be seen as heresy to Italian cooks, suggesting people
struggling to get it right “try adding a slick of double cream
to the mix”.