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    Anyone Know the Origin/Meaning of Puttanesca Tomato Sauce?

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Here are some friends with simlar question as we.And I have this question for many days,anyone help us?
Kitty said: Yes.Anyone Know the Origin/Meaning of Puttanesca Tomato Sauce?-I try seach this on internet but no results found.Maybe this is a stupid question.
Mike said: oh,no,you are wrong.I have found as below for this question(Anyone Know the Origin/Meaning of Puttanesca Tomato Sauce?),it will help you,my kids.




Answers:
From Wikipedia:

"The name originated in Naples after the local women of easy virtue. Puttana means lady of the night (i.e. a prostitute), but it is not known why it has such a name. One possibility is that the name a reference to the sauce's hot and spicy flavour and smell. Another is that the dish was offered to prospective customers at a low price to entice them into the house of ill repute."

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"Italian tradition says that the reason for the unusual name is that in the old days prostitutes would cook this dish and the strong aroma would help to attract men as potential customers. According to chef Jeff Smith of the Frugal Gourmet, its name came from the fact that it was a quick cheap meal that prostitutes could prepare between customers.

Another story about this dish comes from Diane Seed in her "Top 100 Pasta Sauces". (p.20) ISBN 0-89815-232-1. She says:

My introduction to this famous pasta dish occurred when I overheard two elderly priests discussing the pros and cons of Spaghetti alla Puttanesca ("Whore's spagehtti") as they deliberated over the menu in a Neapolitan restaurant. Made of ingredients found in most Italian larders, this is also known as 'Spaghetti alla Buona Donna' - or 'Good Woman's Spaghetti' - which can be misleading if one is not familiar with the ironic insult 'figlio d'una buona donna' - son of a good woman.

To understand how this sauce came to get its name we have to look back to the 1950's when brothels in Italy were state-owned. They were known as case chiuse or 'closed houses' because the shutters had to be kept permanently closed to avoid offending the sensibilities of neighbors or innocent passers-by. Conscientious Italian housewives always shop at the local market every day to buy really fresh food, but the 'civil servants' were only allowed one day per week for shopping and their time was valuable. Their speciality became a sauce made quickly from odds and ends in the larder and now invaluable to us all, by whatever degree of virtue, when time and ingredients are in short supply.
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Key ingredients are: tomatoes, anchovies, olives, garlic, and capers all cooked in olive oil.

Other Answers:
The answer above is of course good. I too could have copied Wikipedia info, but everyone knows this so I chose to ignore it. Not because it is not good, but because most users know this source themselves already. Therefore my answer stems from different sources.

I in fact invite you to search yourself using this link that gives you bigger tools:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&q=%22Puttanesca+Tomato+Sauce%22

A traditional Italian sauce enriched with Mediterranean Olives, Capers and Anchovies
Source(s):
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&q=what+is+%22Puttanesca+Tomato+Sauce%22
The sauce's name is derived from the fact that it was served to customers of prostitutes as an appetizer or just something to eat while they waited. The sauce was spicy, thought to match the emotion of those who were eating it. The name itself derives from the Italian word "prostitute".


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