Spaghetti with Garlic and Oil

This is one of the simplest, most inexpensive, and most popular of pasta dishes in Italy. It is eaten throughout the country, and several regions claim it as their own. This is likely since any area in Italy that produces olive oil and garlic could have invented this recipe, and those two ingredients are ubiquitous. In Rome the dish is called spaghetti alla prestinara. This goes back to the vulgarized Latin word prestinarious, meaning baker. Perhaps a woman baker (prestinar