The Sordid Story of Puttanesca, the Prostitute Pasta Sauce

Feb 02, 2016 1158

by Dan Gentile


Prostitution has different connotations around the world, but there's only one place where it's inspired a sauce. That place is Italy and the stuff is puttanesca, which translates roughly to "lady of the night."

Some sources call the sauce Roman (The Oxford Companion to Italian Food), but it's more commonly associated with Naples, the country's third-largest city, the birthplace of pizza, and home of sirens so seductive that the only way to resist them is to fill your ears with beeswax and be tied to the mast of a ship. 

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Source: https://www.thrillist.com/

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