Pasta carbonara with corn and bacon

Pasta and macaroni Italian cuisine

This version of pasta carbonara, or coal miner’s pasta, is quite a diversion from the traditional recipe. It includes beautiful, wide, curly-edged mafaldine noodles, sweet, charred corn and smokey bacon. Conversely, the egg and cheese based sauce is very much authentic, and does not include cream, as many Americanized versions do.