Chicken Alla Puttanesca

While living in Rome in the late 1960s and early ’70s, my husband and I became obsessed with spaghetti alla puttanesca for its snappy flavors that went deeper than most tomato-based sauces. And its ease of preparation made it a simple go-to meal. Named for the prostitutes of Naples, it was, in fact, a quick dish prepared by the tired streetwalkers at the end of the night. On our late-night returns from the center of Rome, we drove past a group of lively “ladies of the night” and got to know