Spaghetti: Mixed Nuts with Raisins, Capers and Olives

This recipe for ‘garbage pail’ pasta, so called because it uses the dregs of almost everything in the store cupboard, came to me via the inimitable Faith Willinger. She, in turn, discovered the recipe at e’ Curti in Sorbo Serpico in Campania. Curti means ‘the shorties’ — so named because the restaurant was founded by a couple of diminutive members of a travelling circus.