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Is that pasta you’re cooking or are you just happy to see me?
June 4th, 2007
Pasta puttanesca is one of my all-time favorite dishes which pleases Kevin because he knows the recipe by heart. This perfect combo of tomatoes, olives, capers, garlic, and anchovies does have rather, uh, unsavory origins. As this foodie explains:
The first interpretation is that the intense aroma, (harking back to the “stinking” Latin definition), would lure men from the street into the local house of ill repute. Thus, the Napolese harlots were characterized as the sirens of the culinary world. Three additional accounts all hinge on the fact that Puttanesca sauce is easy and quick to make. The first is that the prostitutes made it for themselves to keep the interruption of their business to a minimum. The second is that they made it for the men awaiting their turn at the brothel. And the final version is that it was a favorite of married women who wished to limit their time in the kitchen so that they may visit their paramour.
Or if you are Rachael Ray, you can be demure and succinct at the same time: “It comes from the Italian for ‘fast and easy.’”
Or if you are Uppity, you can say, “Pass the stinking pasta sauce, you white male oppressor!”
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LOL! I like your version the best.
I always thought the name puttanesca sounded dirty.