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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.

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Researchers have developed a foolproof recipe for cacio e pepe, based on their findings studying the physics of mixing cheese in water and determining the mechanism that causes the cheese sauce to go ...