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Roman chefs accused Britain’s leading recipe brand of bastardizing the famous cacio e pepe pasta dish, The Times reported this summer. The original recipe calls for combining black pepper and sharp Pecorino Romano, but Good Food published a recipe that added butter and featured Parmigiano Reggiano instead of Pecorino Romano. In a letter to Good Food and the British Embassy in Rome, chefs in the Italian capital complained about the move. “That’s like us coming to Britain and demanding the finest double malt whiskey mixed with lemonade,” said Claudio Pica, author of the letter and president of the Rome branch …