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Spaghetti, anchovies, olives and capers in a tomato sauce.
Because puttana means roughly 'whore' or 'prostitute' and puttanesca is an adjective derived from that word, the dish may have been invented in one of many bordellos in the Naples working-class neighbourhood of Quartieri Spagnoli as a quick meal taken between servicing clients.[3][4][5] Alternatively, food historian Jeremy Parzen suggests: "Italians use puttana (and related words) almost the way we use shyt, as an all-purpose profanity, so pasta alla puttanesca might have originated with someone saying, essentially, 'I just threw a bunch of shyt from the cupboard into a pan'."[6]
