Pasta Puttanesca
This “modern” version of Puttanesca was popularized in Naples in the early 1960s but the dish has roots dating back much further. Attempts to translate the word a little too literally (“whore’s sauce”) have led to the theory it was invented by the “working class” in the bordellos common in Naples at the time. According to Wikipedia, Italians use “puttana” similar to the way we use “shit” – as in “throw some shit together from the fridge / pantry” and…