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The dish is featured in [[The Bad Beginning]] from the novel series [[A Series of Unfortunate Events]] by [[Lemony Snicket]] as the dish the Baudelaire children prepare at [[Count Olaf]]'s house. The dish also features prominently in the [[Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events|movie based on the novels]].
The dish is featured in [[The Bad Beginning]] from the novel series [[A Series of Unfortunate Events]] by [[Lemony Snicket]] as the dish the Baudelaire children prepare at [[Count Olaf]]'s house. The dish also features prominently in the [[Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events|movie based on the novels]].

The sauce plays an important role in the account of an aspiring, yet struggling writer (it's really hard) who makes a horrible version of it yet believes it to be better than the puttanesca his friend, who is a chef, makes because his friend told him so as to get him off his back about the whole affair. Much like readers assumed the girl, who the writer is having coffee with, had done when her mother sent her a text asking her to check whether or not the stove was off. The stove was in fact on and thankfully the girl was also able to detach herself from the situation without tasting the "sauce in the whore's style" which may have u fact simply existed in the write's mind because he was more accustomed to saucy whores. Puttanesca sauce became viral thanks to imgur in the early part of July, 2015.
http://m.imgur.com/gallery/Xmb37



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Revision as of 02:59, 10 July 2015

Spaghetti alla puttanesca
A plate of spaghetti alla puttanesca
Alternative namespasta alla puttanesca, pasta puttanesca
CourseMain
Place of originItaly
Region or stateCampania
Created bySandro Petti (some dispute this)
Serving temperatureHot
Main ingredientsSpaghetti, tomatoes, olives, capers, garlic,and anchovies (in Lazio).
Variationsspaghetti alla puttanesca with tuna

Spaghetti alla puttanesca (literally "spaghetti in the garbage style" or "spaghetti in the whore's style" in Italian) is a tangy, somewhat salty Italian pasta dish invented in the mid-20th century.

The ingredients are typical of Southern Italian cuisine: tomatoes, olive oil, olives, capers and garlic.[1]

Origin

Various accounts exist as to when and how the dish originated, but it likely dates to the mid-twentieth century. The earliest known mention of it is in Raffaele La Capria’s Ferito a Morte (Mortal Wound), a 1961 Italian novel which mentions "spaghetti alla puttanesca come li fanno a Siracusa (spaghetti alla puttanesca as they make it in Syracuse)".[2] The sauce became popular in the 1960s, according to the Professional Union of Italian Pasta Makers.[3]

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 quantities of oregano; while spaghetti alla siciliana is distinguished by the addition of green peppers.[4]

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.[5] According to Cuomo, Petti's moment of inspiration came when—near closing one evening—Petti found a group of customers sitting at one of his tables. He was low on ingredients and so told them he didn't have enough to make them a meal. They complained that it was late and they were hungry. "Facci una puttanata qualsiasi," or "Make any kind of garbage," they insisted.[a] Petti had nothing more than four tomatoes, two olives and some capers—the basic ingredients for the sugo, “So I used them to make the sauce for the spaghetti,” Petti told Cuomo. Later, Petti included this dish on his menu as spaghetti alla puttanesca.

Basic recipe

The sauce alone is called sugo alla puttanesca in Italian. Recipes may differ according to preferences; for instance the Neapolitan version is prepared without anchovies, unlike the version popular in Lazio, and chili peppers are sometimes added. In most cases, however, the sugo is a little salty (from the capers, olives, and anchovies) and quite fragrant (from the garlic). Traditionally, the sauce is served with spaghetti, although it also goes well with penne, bucatini, linguine and vermicelli.

Chopped garlic and anchovies (omitted in the Neapolitan version) are sautéed in olive oil. Chopped chili peppers, olives, capers, diced tomatoes and oregano are added along with salt and black pepper to taste. The cook then reduces this mixture by simmering and pours it over spaghetti cooked al dente. The final touch is a topping of parsley.[6]

The dish is featured in The Bad Beginning from the novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket as the dish the Baudelaire children prepare at Count Olaf's house. The dish also features prominently in the movie based on the novels.

The sauce plays an important role in the account of an aspiring, yet struggling writer (it's really hard) who makes a horrible version of it yet believes it to be better than the puttanesca his friend, who is a chef, makes because his friend told him so as to get him off his back about the whole affair. Much like readers assumed the girl, who the writer is having coffee with, had done when her mother sent her a text asking her to check whether or not the stove was off. The stove was in fact on and thankfully the girl was also able to detach herself from the situation without tasting the "sauce in the whore's style" which may have u fact simply existed in the write's mind because he was more accustomed to saucy whores. Puttanesca sauce became viral thanks to imgur in the early part of July, 2015. http://m.imgur.com/gallery/Xmb37


Notes

^ a: In this usage, puttanata is an Italian noun meaning something worthless. It derives from the Italian word for whore, puttana.

References

  1. ^ Zanini De Vita & Fant 2013, p. 68.
  2. ^ The dictionary entry is cited in Jeremy Parzen, ‘The origins of Sugo alla puttanesca?’, Do Bianchi, 13 January 2008, an article which supplied a number of the sources used here.
  3. ^ ‘Sughi d’Italia: 1000 anni di pasta, 1000 anni di condimenti’, Unione Industriali Pastai Italiani
  4. ^ Il nuovissimo cucchiaio d’argento, ed. by Antonia Monti Tedeschi, 6th edn (Editoriale Domus, 1971), pp. 220–221
  5. ^ Annarita Cuomo (17 February 2005). ‘Il sugo “alla puttanesca” nacque per caso ad Ischia, dall'estro culinario di Sandro Petti’. Il Golfo. Archived from the original on 2014-08-13
  6. ^ Recipe on the site for the Accademia Italiana della Cucina
  • Zanini De Vita, Oretta; Fant, Maureen B. (2013). Sauces & Shapes: Pasta the Italian Way. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-08243-2. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)


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