Carbonara

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Did you know that Carbonara didn't exist until after WWII? And in many ways, it's an American dish? I sure didn't know this.

From Wikipedia:

Pasta alla carbonara is unrecorded before the Second World War; notably, it is absent from Ada Boni's 1930 La Cucina Romana. The dish is first attested in 1950, when it was described in the Italian newspaper La Stampa as a dish sought by the American officers after the allied liberation of Rome in 1944.^[23] It was described as a Roman dish, when many Italians were eating eggs and bacon supplied by troops from the United States.^[24] It was included in Elizabeth David's Italian Food, an English-language cookbook published in Great Britain in 1954.^[25]