Spaghetti alla puttanesca (whore's spaghetti) is a spicy, tangy and somewhat salty Italian pasta dish that culinary experts regard as modern and reflects the bounty of the market rather than the garden. The ingredients are inexpensive, easy to find and typically Mediterranean. Italians refer to the sauce as sugo alla puttanesca.
The earliest reference to this recipe in print, cited by the Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, is Raffaele La Ca...
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Spaghetti alla puttanesca (whore's spaghetti) is a spicy, tangy and somewhat salty Italian pasta dish that culinary experts regard as modern and reflects the bounty of the market rather than the garden. The ingredients are inexpensive, easy to find and typically Mediterranean. Italians refer to the sauce as sugo alla puttanesca.
The earliest reference to this recipe in print, cited by the Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, is Raffaele La Capria’s 1961 novel Ferito a morte. Also, The Unione Industriali Pastai Italiani (the Professional Union of Italian Pasta Makers) says the sauce became popular in the 1960s.
According to Annarita Cuomo, writer for Il Golfo, a newspaper serving the Italian islands of Ischia and Procida, sugo alla puttanesca was invented in the 1950s by Sandro Petti, co-owner of Rancio Fellone, a famous Ischian restaurant and nightspot.
The moment of inspiration came, writes Cuomo, when near closing one evening, Petti found a group of hungry friends sitting at one...
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