Charleston’s Beautiful South Serves Carbonara by Way of China

David Schuttenberg, chef/owner of Charleston’s Beautiful South, first learned about lap yuk while working at a butcher shop in New York City. “It was a whole-animal butcher shop so our job was to make sure all product got used,” he says. When his sous chef at the time saw excess pork belly, he decided to make lap yuk, an air-cured Chinese bacon, the recipe for which he had learned from his...