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Understanding the regional cuisines of Italy

Carbonara is Roman. That sentence is doing a lot of work.

Italy is not a flavour. Emilia-Romagna, Lazio, Sicily and the Veneto cook different dinners.

Our carbonara page is Lazio-leaning on purpose. Cream is a different pasta.

When we expand Italy, we will do it as a cluster — not one random 'Italian' recipe from every region.

Before you start cooking

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