Cacio e pepe is an iconic pasta dish that is also frustratingly difficult to make. A group of Italian scientists studied what makes it fall apart to better understand how to make it more reliably.

At first glance Cacio e pepe looks like a simple recipe containing only three ingredients – pasta, Pecorino Romano cheese and black pepper. Professional pasta chefs and Italian grandmothers have ...

More ritual, and making meaning through imperfection. When scientists recently unveiled a physics-based method to perfect cacio e pepe—eliminating the dish’s infamous clumping through a ...

It’s not your cooking skills that is making your cacio e pepe subpar — it’s science. Fortunately, new research is here to help you master this deliciously simple dish. Cacio e pepe might be ...