Spaghetti alla Puttanesca

(Italian: "whore's spaghetti") is a spicy, tangy and somewhat salty Italian pasta dish. Italians refer to the sauce as sugo alla puttanesca.

The earliest reference to spaghetti alla puttanesca in print, cited by the Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, occurred in Raffaele La Capria’s 1961 novel Ferito a morte. Also, Italy