Comments on: The origins of Sugo alla puttanesca? http://dobianchi.com/2008/01/13/the-origins-of-sugo-alla-puttanesca/ Negotiating the Epistemologic Implications of Oenophilia Thu, 17 May 2012 17:51:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Lenten Friday Recipe: Spaghetti alla Putanesca | http://dobianchi.com/2008/01/13/the-origins-of-sugo-alla-puttanesca/#comment-36489 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:23:31 +0000 http://dobianchi.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/the-origins-of-sugo-alla-puttanesca/#comment-36489 [...] the menu than “Puttanata.” There’s a pretty good post on the non whorish origins here. Most are in agreement that the sauce didn’t appear until after World War [...]

]]> By: Flydende fadæser og faldne fruentimmere | Madmenneske http://dobianchi.com/2008/01/13/the-origins-of-sugo-alla-puttanesca/#comment-26380 Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:29:41 +0000 http://dobianchi.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/the-origins-of-sugo-alla-puttanesca/#comment-26380 [...] er derimod sådan noget som spaghetti puttanesca – horernes pasta – som har en undertone af industrihavn og smøreolie fra ansjoser, kapers og [...]

]]> By: Roasted Puttanesca Pasta recipe by Jeanne Benedict http://dobianchi.com/2008/01/13/the-origins-of-sugo-alla-puttanesca/#comment-25367 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:30:45 +0000 http://dobianchi.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/the-origins-of-sugo-alla-puttanesca/#comment-25367 [...] my favorite discussion about the origins of puttanesca can be found on the blog Do Bianchi, where the author gives dated accounts of where the sauce appeared in print as a response to one of [...]

]]> By: Glen http://dobianchi.com/2008/01/13/the-origins-of-sugo-alla-puttanesca/#comment-23904 Mon, 02 May 2011 07:31:32 +0000 http://dobianchi.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/the-origins-of-sugo-alla-puttanesca/#comment-23904 I tend to agree that the name of this dish would have a much longer history than ‘official’ lexicographical sources may record. This tends to be true of much street language. Prostitutes could well eat in great haste from a limited selection of ingredients. But another quite obvious link with the special taste of the dish relates to the fishy/salty/spicy flavour. As degenerate worldly wise habitues of brothels may be able to confirm.

]]> By: Nunzio http://dobianchi.com/2008/01/13/the-origins-of-sugo-alla-puttanesca/#comment-22477 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:12:25 +0000 http://dobianchi.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/the-origins-of-sugo-alla-puttanesca/#comment-22477 Robert, I agree with your sentiments 100%. I’ve also responded to a post on another blog that claims “tomato-based didn’t appear in Italy until the period following the second world war.” Which I found both interesting and humorous since my grandmother and great grandmother had been making tomato sauce since the turn of the century.

Historians need data and documentation, but just because something wasn’t widely published doesn’t mean it didn’t exist. I hope someone takes your advice and does their own research by interviewing central and southern Italians in their 60s and 70s to see whether or not these assertions of pre-WW2 Italian cuisine are really true or not.

]]> By: Do Bianchi http://dobianchi.com/2008/01/13/the-origins-of-sugo-alla-puttanesca/#comment-19816 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:30:32 +0000 http://dobianchi.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/the-origins-of-sugo-alla-puttanesca/#comment-19816 @Robert I’d love to hear your mother’s story! :-) Can you get her to tell it to you? I’d love to post it here… my email jparzen [at] gmail [dot] com thanks in advance!

]]> By: Robert Bilenchi http://dobianchi.com/2008/01/13/the-origins-of-sugo-alla-puttanesca/#comment-19776 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 06:31:31 +0000 http://dobianchi.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/the-origins-of-sugo-alla-puttanesca/#comment-19776 My mother is 93 is still living, she was born in 1917. She remembers this dish, speghetti puttanesca as a child and a young adult in Naples Italy. My parents made the dish when I was growing up in New York in the ’50s. So how then does this dish get to be invented in the ’50s. My parents were not well connected enough to have received the recipe from any Italian chef who might have been associated with the alleged inventor. Someone needs to do a survey of older Italians born prior to th the ’30 to refute the ’50s story of the invention of spaghetti puttanesca. The Annarita Cuomo story appears to be erroneus. Sandro Petti did not invent the dish and though a study may have found the dishes popularity to have swelled in the ’60 this does not show it was invented just proir to that time. Lets do a study while these people are still alive.

]]> By: A note on pasta all’amatriciana « Tony's Blog http://dobianchi.com/2008/01/13/the-origins-of-sugo-alla-puttanesca/#comment-18810 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:37:24 +0000 http://dobianchi.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/the-origins-of-sugo-alla-puttanesca/#comment-18810 [...] until the period following the second world war. (The Italian Pasta-Makers Union has published hard data on [...]

]]> By: It's a Mad Mad World » Recipe: Puttanesca Bianca http://dobianchi.com/2008/01/13/the-origins-of-sugo-alla-puttanesca/#comment-15332 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:06:30 +0000 http://dobianchi.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/the-origins-of-sugo-alla-puttanesca/#comment-15332 [...] The result: the pasta puttanesca! (source Do Bianchi) [...]

]]> By: Pasta alla Puttanesca « Did You See It http://dobianchi.com/2008/01/13/the-origins-of-sugo-alla-puttanesca/#comment-7380 Fri, 21 May 2010 04:02:44 +0000 http://dobianchi.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/the-origins-of-sugo-alla-puttanesca/#comment-7380 [...] are any number of stories as to how ‘Spaghetti alla puttanesca’ came about (See here).  The one I like the most is Chef Sandro Petti, from the Italian Island of Ischia, was low on [...]

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