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.
The Silver Spoon, it is like the Bible of Italian cusine I have heard.
Ah right. I heard it is wonderful. Perhaps the original book came about before the dish was invented. I'd like to buy that book.
1961 Italian novel which mentions ""spaghetti alla puttanesca come li fanno a Siracusa" (spaghetti alla puttanesca as they make it in Syracuse)". The sauce became popular in the 1960s, according to the Professional Union of Italian Pasta Makers.
The 1971 edition of the "Cucchiaio d’argento" ("The Silver Spoon"), one of Italy's most prominent cookbooks, has no recipe with this name, but two which are similar: The Neapolitan "spaghetti alla partenopea", is made with anchovies and generous
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