Bucatini Carbonara

This famous pasta is unrecorded before the Second World War. There are any number of unsubstantiated tales of its origin, including that it was traditional sustenance for charcoal workers (carbone meaning ‘charcoal’), or that it was named after the Carbonari (‘charcoalmen’ — a secret society prominent in Italy’s unification). Whatever the origins, they were likely in Rome, which remains the spiritual home of this pasta today. A good carbonara is luscious, unctuous, pigg