Carbonara has more origin stories than all the Marvel and DC superheroes combined. The theories in this video just scratch the surface. Most stories focus on the name Carbonara being similar to the Italian word for charcoal, including a preposterous (in my opinion) theory that it gets its name from the amount of black pepper in the dish… If your carbonara looks at all like charcoal, you may have done something wrong.
Regardless of what you believe, it’s ironic and a bit sad that a dish born from creativity and experimentation is now being used as the prime example of the strictness of Italian cuisine. Italian cuisine has its rules for sure, but that does not mean there isn’t room for trying something new. The rules are there to anchor recipes in time, establish traditions, legacies, and a historical record. But just like every household has their own version of a Ragu… carbonara should be granted the same stylish flexibility. For the 80 years that Carbonara has existed, the two main ingredients have been trial and error, so use the classic recipe as a starting point, but go invent the NEXT big dish that people can fight about online. C is for change, and C is for Carbonara.
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i tried making it with left over turkey breast that i seasoned the day before but didn't cook, it was damn good still
You are the best out there.
I'm Italian and every academic source I read on the topic of "traditional Italian recipes" points to one conclusion: yes, Carbonara is in its substance American. At the beginning, it had "bacon 'n eggs". No secret society, no mystique, no nothing. Italians took a few ingredients brought by American soldiers – cause everybody at that time was literally starving (literally, it was hard to afford the basics, let alone managing to have "guanciale"!) – and in the 50's came up with some versions, but remained uncodified until the mid 70's.
Yesss my favourite dish! I grew up on carbonara 😂
Man you're good. Love the presentation and your cooking ability, i'm now looking forward your way of recreating the various recipes of our beloved cuisine 😀
A food philosopher I can get behind
You don't just cook, you teach. Brilliant 👌🏽
I like your approach to teaching cooking, so encouraging and kind.
Hi! Awesome info! I was going through all your reels and shorts haha. Im curious about your ethnicity, where you grew up and places where you worked as a chef. I remember you saying that u worked in china, italy. What else would u be willing to share?
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Only Italians freak out. While using asian noodles and american tomato lol
The hell with turkey bacon! Bring on the prosciutto. ❤
So good. All content, no filler.
While it is a fun debate about the origins of Carbonara, it is most certainly known around Rome that it came from one of two restaurants, both called La Carbonara, in the early 1900’s and it did include guanciale. Just because it wasn’t in a cookbook until the 1950’s means nothing because there weren’t many mainstreamed cookbooks earlier than that in Italy.
Great short as usual
You know carbonara’s origin more than italian people!
Good job
I'm loving this ABC's series ❤ Thanks
i see your shorts i upvote them very simple
I have heard someone say that carbonara was made by coal miners and is called that because of coal (I have my doubts). Anyways,
Can we possibly get a pesto lesson from you? Mine just doesn't come out basily enough and tastes kinda bland. At this point I think you're the only person on this website who knows what's up, so it would be really cool.
Really disappointed to see you using AI images
Broooo my favourite
TRIGGGGG TUBEEEEEEEE 😊
Yourr almost at 100k!
So well done!!
C for Captivating
You've nailed this one!
Calmly saying how carbonara probably isn't that old while still being typical Italian recipe.
Here in Italy it's just a bunch of ignorant fanatics who'll say it's older than Rome itself vs some people (I really don't know how to describe them) that, for strange reasons, feel they must attack traditional Italian cuisine in favor of the (Italo-)American one to be more "progressive": so, "Carbonara appears in an American book! This is the proof it's American dish and your ignorant grandfathers stole it!!!".
Well done to you!
Thank you! I'm so sick of all this "Authentic Carbonara"-hipsters, especially when it's about using cream…
I really hope you'll remember us commenting when you blow up. You're one of my favorite creators on the platform and I've been following you for a solid few months.
Good shit dude, keep up the work. Algorithm will do its thing
See this is what I like simple down to earth explanations about food I love
Vincenzo 😂
That ai art is…really bad.
What about cacio e pepe
Love this!
Great and simple explanation, we definitely need that in chaos that's YouTube shorts. personally I like to pair carbonara with a sauteed mushroom, the rich carbonara and the umami of the mushroom tasted so good together, and I never make carbonara the "authentic" way again
Your videos make me feel like I’m getting something back in my life I missed or am missing.
Yay for adaptive and scrabby
Nay for rigid and traditional
Got it.
*At certain part of the world, parmesan is expensive anyway, hence the cream or the cheaper milk option. Scrabby pasta is the best.
That is exactly what I wanted to hear! None of that "THERE'S ONLY ONE TRUE ORIGIN AND RECIPE FOR CARBONARA!" It's uniqe yet a very diverse and versatile, which is more proper description for it, type of food. It's literally "pasta + some kind of meat". Even thought it is supposedly guanciale/bacon, it's still fulfilling and good with other types of meat and some variations with carbonara sauce like carbonara on a cream base or with bechamel.
Thank you for you contet!! 🥰
I love your videos but those Ai Images are frightening 😂
Love your knowledge and approach to this series, as an Italian I am so tired of purists.
Non-dogmatic pasta dude
If we always made food the same there wouldn't be new dishes, that's why so many dishes come from the nineties and before, because they just cooked without caring about authenticity. The poor Italian farmer who probably invented some pasta dish didn't make it being traditional
Turkey bacon? You… Monster 😱
Authenticity is for chefs. I grew up in Italy and I can assure you people use whatever they have at home for Carbonara. Might be pancetta or parmigiano, whatever you had available.
I love how your videos do not gatekeep.
Id love to see u make a long video giving us a basic recipe of carbonara which we can substitute ingredients at our disposal
There's a restaurant in my town which is 100% a front for something, but they make a damn good Carbonara and sometimes give me free garlic bread 🙂
My Nona is the most Italian lady I’ve ever met and she doesn’t give a damn about authenticity she uses what ever is in her hand😂
Nahhhh that- what the hell
One of my favorite! The combination of egg, bacon, cheese, and a bit of chili (no traditional 😂)… aaaaamazing!
What you make at home for yourself, is only your business. My problem is with content creators who say they make authentic dishes and then substitute out half the ingredients. That's not the same dish then. Of course you can make a pasta dish with bacon, eggs, cheese and whatever else you want to throw in there, but then don't call it carbonara, or specify what else you put in there. When I order a carbonara or if I want to look up a carbonara recipe, I don't want to be decieved with a modified dish, I want to have it authentic, and if I want it modified, then I ask for/look up just that. Definitions do matter a lot.