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Columbus Cup: Featured dish fettucine carbonara steals the show Continued from front page
soup, tomato pie, hoagies, a wine tasting, an elaborate Italian antipasto table and the rest of the dinner dishes, it would seem that any more food might be lost in the feast. But the Featured Dish seems to steal the show.
This year, one of Italy’s most beloved dishes – fettuccine carbonara – has been selected. It is an artful blend of guanciale (Italian cured pork) or bacon and hot pasta, tossed in a creamy blend of raw beaten eggs, grated Pecorino Romano cheese and freshly ground black pepper.
Legend has it that the dish was created in tribute to the Allied soldiers who liberated Rome in 1944. American GIs brought their daily rations of eggs and bacon to local Italian restaurants to add to the limited Italian menu. From that humble beginning, the beloved Carbonara dish was created.
The first written reference to the dish appeared in a 1950 edition of the newspaper La Stampa. It was described as a favorite of American servicemen. In 1954 the recipe appeared for the first time in Elizabeth David’s classic book “Italian Food.”
“Carbonara is an extremely popular traditional recipe,” said Frank Arcade, food chairman of the Columbus Cup. “Its fame is not just throughout Italy but around the world. You can use just about any long variety of pasta for the dish but we chose fettuccine because it brings a bit more of the old-world style to the day.”
For those unable to attend this year’s
Columbus Cup, but now craving pasta carbonara, Montgomery County has a few restaurants that feature interpretations of the hard-to-find dish. They include the Boot in Ambler, Viggiano’s and Bar Sera in Conshohocken, and Radice in Blue Bell.
has bucatini carbonara sometimes as a special, but will make it anytime upon request. IAH
Al De Gennaro serves fettucine carbonara at the Columbus Cup Golf and Bocce Feast, to the delight of (seated, from
left) Joe Giannetti, Keith Tornetta, Mark Santoleri, John Paravati and Frank Caiola. Standing beside De Gennaro are Joe Paravati (left) and Frank Arcade.
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