Carbonara by troops from the United States. It was included in Elizabeth David's "Italian Food", an English-language cookbook published in Great Britain in 1954. Carbonara Carbonara () is an Italian pasta dish from Rome made with egg, hard cheese, guanciale (or pancetta), and pepper. The recipe is not fixed by a specific type of hard cheese or pasta. The cheese is usually Pecorino Romano. Spaghetti is the usual pasta, however, fettuccine, rigatoni, linguine, or bucatini are also used. Either guanciale or pancetta can be used. Another common substitute outside Italy is lardons of smoked bacon. The dish was created in the
Regulation of food and dietary supplements by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration "drug" under the act includes a section defining drugs as "articles ("other than food") intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals". Thus, the definition of food is important not only in determining what is covered by the regulatory regime for food, but in determining what is "excluded" from the regulatory regime for drugs. For example, in the 1983 case of "Nutrilab, Inc. v. Schweiker", the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit found that starch blockers, though derived from kidney beans, were drugs rather than food under the meaning