Ladies & Gents, meet the 'Slu*tty Spaghetti': Pasta alla Puttanesca

Recipe and story of one iconically named Neapolitan dish.

I am kind of sorry that this pasta, which is hands down one of the best in the whole of the Italian repertoire, is usually overshadowed by its peculiar name.

It is as bad as it sounds: Puttanesca comes from, or at least is strongly evocative of, the Italian word Puttana - a decidedly unflattering way to call a prostitute. In english, you would translate…