Spaghettini con Pane, Acciughe e Olive

Thin Spaghetti with Bread Crumbs, Anchovies, and Black Olives

Preparation info
  • For

    4 to 6

    Persons
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Marcella's Italian Kitchen

By Marcella Hazan

Published 1986

  • About

No Ingredient is such an inexpensive source of concentrated flavor as are anchovies. When judiciously utilized, they bring to life a broad variety of dishes from appetizers, to pasta to roasts, to sauces for scaloppine.

Many of the most satisfying preparations using anchovies come from poor country kitchens, particularly the ones of the south, where cooks had nothing in abundance save for the genius of making things tasty. This pasta sauce is an example. In it, anchovies do i