Spaghetti Alla Carbonara

This is the one pasta that I never eat at a restaurant, mainly because it is so badly done most of the time. All too often, the golden rule of pasta as the hero and the sauce as support act is forgotten. The pasta drowns in a creamy sauce, and a real carbonara doesn’t even have cream in it. Why do so many make that mistake? Carbonara is simply a sauce of egg and cheese that coats the spaghetti, with little flavour hits supplied by garlic and pancetta, and white wine adding the finishing tou