Vermicelli, Whore’s Style

If chicken soup is Jewish penicillin, is this Italian penicillin? This dish is eaten throughout Italy, but its origin seems to be somewhere between Naples and Rome. There are many stories about how puttanesca sauce got its name. The most frequently cited reason is that this dish can be made very quickly so that a prostitute can have a nourishing meal between appointments. Other people, especially romantics and hypochondriacs, say the name of the sauce has to do with the special prope