Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being or served with a sauce of eggs, minced bacon or ham, grated cheese, and seasonings.
- noun Carbonara sauce.
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- noun
Spaghetti carbonara
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun sauce for pasta; contains eggs and bacon or ham and grated cheese
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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What really surprised me — the carbonara is really good.
Cafe Zaiya | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2006
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Hi Andreea, carbonara is definitely a comforting dish, but again, its really probably just about the bacon.
There is no such thing as too much bacon Michele 2006
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I understand that originally it was made using squid ink and given the name carbonara because it was black like coal.
Presto Pasta Night #9 Haalo 2007
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Agaton Strom for The Wall Street Journal The maccheroni alla carbonara, which is prepared with panchetta, egg and pecorino pepato cheese, is shown here.
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I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut when I go out to eat with co-workers and friends who snarf down the cream-laden quasi-alfredo that's described as carbonara on restaurant menus.
Fettuccini Carbonara 2005
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The origins of the dish known as carbonara are in dispute.
chron.com Chronicle 2010
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The pastas include tonnarelli with pecorino cheese and black pepper; rigatoni with a tomato sauce; and tagliolini alla carbonara.
Chiaroscuro 2012
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Lunch was in Llubí – a fantastic spaghetti carbonara not very Mallorcan but just what the doctor ordered.
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I love to add vegetables to pasta carbonara and it is a great way to sneak in eggs for dinner and it won't bother Steve who does not think eggs are suitable dinner food.
Laura Klein: In the Kitchen With Food Writer and Cookbook Author Kristine Kidd Laura Klein 2011
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"In England it's normal for someone who likes to cook to make Indian one night, a traditional English breakfast the next morning and a carbonara that evening."
Cookbooks From Britannia Rule! Katherine Wheelock 2011
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