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Originally Posted by kujirasan  As the name shows it has to be Carbon or black, squid or cuttlefish ink sac is used to impart black colour , however these days they use black spaghetti, I have one beg left from last trip to Italy . But it is up to imagination. |
Ah, not so sure about that. The full name for the dish is pasta a la carbonara and a carbonara in Italy is a coal miner. So, it is pasta in the style of the coal miner.
As evidenced by the number of recipes posted here there are many ways to prepare it.