One of my favorite pasta dishes is spaghetti alla puttanesca. Do you like this dish?
I think so. It is made with tomatoes, olive oil, anchovies, olives, capers, and garlic, right?
That's the one. I leave out the anchovies as I'm vegetarian, but add extra olives for the saltiness. Pasta dishes are so versatile. What's your favorite?
I have always loved alfredo except when they use too much oil. Spaghetti alla puttanesca seems to have come about in the mid-twentieth century.
I love alfredo too. My neighbor sometimes makes some for me. Puttanesca did come about then. It was invented in Naples, Italy.
The famous Italian cookbook doesn't even feature the recipe. I wonder why that is?
Which famous cookbook? I have a couple of Italian cookbooks and they mention it.
quantities of oregano; while "spaghetti alla siciliana" is distinguished by the addition of green peppers. Still again there is a Sicilian style popular around Palermo that includes olives, anchovies and raisins.
In a 2005 article from "Il Golfo"—a daily newspaper serving the Italian islands of Ischia and Procida—Annarita Cuomo asserted that "sugo alla puttanesca" was invented in the 1950s by Sandro Petti, co-owner of "Rancio Fellone", a famous Ischian restaurant and nightspot. According to Cuomo, Petti's moment of inspiration
Spaghetti alla puttanesca
Spaghetti alla puttanesca (; "spaghetti with very few ingredients" in Italian) is an Italian pasta dish invented in Naples in the mid-20th century. Its ingredients typically include tomatoes, olive oil, anchovies, olives, capers and garlic.
Origin.
Various accounts exist as to when and how the dish originated, but it probably dates to the mid-twentieth century. The earliest known mention of it is in Raffaele La Capria’s "Ferito a Morte" ("Mortal Wound"), a