Get Fat With Delia Smith

I do the cooking in my home, but on Saturday my wife decided she would make dinner for a change and that it would be pasta with carbonara sauce. We were out at the time, devouring egg and chips in Deepest Hackney's peerless Amhurst Cafe, and couldn't remember all the ingredients. Sheila produced her infernal BlackBerry and scoured the net for recipes. She found the sacred Delia Smith's . This calls for two large eggs plus two extra yolks, a tablespoon and a half of extra virgin olive oil and a whacking four tablespoons of double cream. On getting home we consulted my 1992 edition of her indispensible Complete Cookery Course. In there - on page 331 - the recipe for spaghetti alla carbonara requires only one extra yolk and only basic olive oil, while double cream is mentioned as a mere afterthought - a "nice addition." The older Delia gets, the more decadent she becomes. Just one reason why she's Britain's best.