But some cacio e pepe recipes will bend tradition by adding butter to the sauce, including Anthony Bourdain's beloved Ristorante Roma Sparita version, which not only adds flavor but helps the ...

Bourdain sits down at an outdoor table placed streetside to enjoy what he refers to as a quintessentially Roman dish -- cacio e pepe. For a dish to garner accolades from Anthony Bourdain ...

And again. Ironically, the timing of that visit was the same year that Anthony Bourdain catapulted Cacio e Pepe to global ...

If you've never tried it, cacio e pepe is one of the great, incredibly simple pastas of Rome. In an episode of "No Reservations," wandering chef Anthony Bourdain went so far as to say the dish ...

Nobody does pasta quite like the Italians, as anyone who has tasted an authentic "pasta alla cacio e pepe" can attest. It's a simple dish: just tonnarelli pasta, pecorino cheese, and pepper.

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