Cacio e Pepe

Three ingredients, infinite technique. Pecorino, pepper, and the starchy water that binds them.

20 min
Total
2
Servings
Medium
Difficulty
Italian
Cuisine

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The dish that taught this desk to respect pasta water. Everything here is emulsion: cheese and water forced into a sauce that has no cream, no butter, and nowhere to hide. Get it wrong and you get clumps in a puddle. The fix is almost always temperature.

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