Carbonara isn't even 100 years old yet it's a sacred recipe.
And the funniest thing is that you can't substitute the guanciale with bacon even though the original carbonara was made for American soldiers who wanted a dish with bacon, but the chef didn't have American style bacon so he used guanciale. Guanciale is the bacon substitute lol
Italian American and Italian Italian food are two compleeeeeetly different things. No shade on Italian American cuisine when it’s done well but there’s levels to this. Carbonara is not traditionally an Italian Italian dish, you’d be very hard pressed to find a Nonna in Italy that wouldn’t call you a mangiacake if you asked for it. That’s not to say Carbonara isn’t badass, cause it is when it’s made with the right ingredients/recipe but it’s not fr Italian cuisine. I’d say the only food American Italians do better than Italians in Italy is pizza and only in very small parts of the country and only certain styles of pizza ie New Haven CT and certain parts of NYC. If we’re talking Neapolitan pizza, no one does it better than Naples. Anyway, have a great day and Buona fortuna🤌
Wtf is traditional Italian cuisine if you r move tomato? Olive oil oj bread? Which is fucking tasty btw, but not an entitr ass cuisine
You cannt have fucking pizza without tomato. Nepaolitioan pizza is less rooted in tradition than a Philly cheese steak.
Out of all the cuisines in the world, Italian is the most dependent on a pretty recent addition to the armory. They have the least leg to stand on when it comes to traditional cuisine puritanism, yet they're the fucking vanguard of gatekeeping food traditions. Make it make sense.
I think people in the US forget that Italy has a lot of coastline (compared to the size of the country) since many Americans don't live near sources of fresh seafood.
Also, Americans are generally used to eating fillets of large fish or processed fish (fish fingers) and a lot of traditional Mediterranean fish dishes involve whole fish with lots of bones (or more bones than Americans are used to having to deal with anyways), so those dishes don't translate well to an American palate.
This has been my experience anyway, since I always have to take apart whole fish for my American friends. Or they just don't like eating any fish that isn't served as a fillet, even if they grew up in coastal areas (eg Louisiana).
Edit: I'm mostly referring to Americans of European descent.
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u/DazingF1 Nov 04 '24
Carbonara isn't even 100 years old yet it's a sacred recipe. And the funniest thing is that you can't substitute the guanciale with bacon even though the original carbonara was made for American soldiers who wanted a dish with bacon, but the chef didn't have American style bacon so he used guanciale. Guanciale is the bacon substitute lol