Recipe: Carbonara

The best thing from Rome since that HBO show

A Braise carbonara recipe was, frankly, inevitable.

Several years ago I went through a brief, but intense, phase of what I can only describe as obsession. Something in me latched onto the puritanical simplicity of Rome’s most famous pasta, the alchemy that turns egg and cheese into something creamier than cream.

And so I started cooking it. A lot. For a f…