And no. I don’t mean sticky, gluey, undercooked, overcooked or otherwise inedible pasta. I mean bad pasta. As in “lady of the night” bad. Whore bad. Hooker bad.
Or as we they say in Italy … Puttana bad.
Yep. That’s right. One of Italy’s most famous pasta sauces gets its name from the run-around wife who, according to one of our Roman friends, would rush home after an elicit love affair and whip up an easy pasta sauce for her husband and children.
Well it might be. I tried to confirm the origins of this sauce with another Roman friend who said the name derived from the 1950′s when whore houses were a big business and a brothel’s madam would entice customers to their house with the promise of dinner … then dessert.
Here’s the deal.
1. Boil pasta in salted water.
2. Lightly saute garlic in olive oil, then add tomato sauce and cook for 10 minutes.
3. Add chopped olives and capers (unless you are lazy like me-then you can just toss them in) and cook for another 10-15 minutes.
4. Add to pasta and serve without cheese.
Changes in U.S. refinery capacity, 2001.(Refineries)(Illustration)
National Petroleum News July 15, 2003
Former Owner Location
BP PLC/BP Products North America, Inc.
Mandan, ND Salt Lake City, UT Coastal Corp./Coastal Refining & Marketing Inc.
Corpus Christi, TX Coastal Corp./Coastal Eagle Point Oil Co.
Westville, NJ Coastal Corp./Coastal Mobile Refining Co.
Chickasaw, AL El Paso Corp./Coastal Refining & Marketing Inc.
Corpus Christi, TX Golden Bear Oil Specialties Bakersfield, CA Haltermann Products Channelview, TX Huntway Refining Co. website corpus christi tx
Benicia, CA Wilmington, CA Neste Trifinery Petro Serv/ Trifinery Petro Serv Corpus Christi, TX Pennzoil-Quaker State Corp.
Shreveport, LA Phillips Petroleum Co./ Phillips PR Core Inc.
Guyama, PR Phillips Petroleum Co./ Phillips Alaska Inc.
Prudhoe Bay, AK Sun Co. Inc.
Yabacoa, PR Tosco Corp./Tosco Rifining Co.
Linden (Bayway), NJ Belle Chasse (Alliance), LA Trainer, PA Wilmington, CA Ferndale, WA Rodeo, CA Arroyo Grande, CA Tosco Corp./Tosco Petro Co.
Wood River, IL Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corp./Ultramar Inc.
Martinez (Golden Eagle), CA Wilmington, CA Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corp./Diamond Shamrock Refining & Marketing Co.
Sunray (McKee), TX Three Rivers, TX Ultramar Diamond Sharock Corp./ TPI Petroleum Inc.
Ardmore, OK Ultramar Diamond shamrock Corp./Colorado Refining Co.
Commerce City, CO
Total Atmospheric Crude Oil Distillation Former Owner Capacity (b/cd)
BP PLC/BP Products North America, Inc.
58,000 58,000 Coastal Corp./Coastal Refining & Marketing Inc.
98,000 Coastal Corp./Coastal Eagle Point Oil Co.
143,000 Coastal Corp./Coastal Mobile Refining Co.
16,500 El Paso Corp./Coastal Refining & Marketing Inc.
98,000 Golden Bear Oil Specialties 0 Haltermann Products 800 Huntway Refining Co.
12,600 5,500 Neste Trifinery Petro Serv/ Trifinery Petro Serv 27,000 Pennzoil-Quaker State Corp.
46,200 Phillips Petroleum Co./ Phillips PR Core Inc.
0 Phillips Petroleum Co./ Phillips Alaska Inc.
14,000 Sun Co. Inc.
45,000 Tosco Corp./Tosco Rifining Co.
250,000 250,000 180,000 131,000 89,000 73,200 41,800 Tosco Corp./Tosco Petro Co.
288,300 Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corp./Ultramar Inc.
166,000 78,800 Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corp./Diamond Shamrock Refining & Marketing Co. website corpus christi tx
151,000 90,000 Ultramar Diamond Sharock Corp./ TPI Petroleum Inc.
84,400 Ultramar Diamond shamrock Corp./Colorado Refining Co.
27,000
Date Former Owner New Owner of Sale
BP PLC/BP Products North Tesoro Petroleum Corp./ Sep-01 America, Inc. Tesoro West Coat Coastal Corp./Coastal Refining El Paso Corp./Coastal Jan-01 & Marketing Inc. Refining & Marketing Inc.
Coastal Corp./Coastal Eagle El Paso Corp./Coastal Jan-01 Point Oil Co. Eagle Point Oil Co.
Coastal Corp./Coastal Mobile El Paso Corp./Coastal Jan-01 Refining Co. Mobile Refining Co.
El Paso Corp./Coastal Refining Valero Energy Corp./Valero Jun-01 & Marketing Inc. Refining Co.
Golden Bear Oil Specialties Tricor Refining LLC Aug-01 Haltermann Products Dow Chemical Co./Haltermann Jul-01 Products Huntway Refining Co. Valero Energy Corp./Valero Jun-01 Refining Co.
Neste Trifinery Petro Serv/ Trigeant Ltd. Jul-01 Trifinery Petro Serv Pennzoil-Quaker State Corp. Calumet Lubricants Co. LP May-01 Phillips Petroleum Co./ Chevron Phillips Chem PR Dec-01 Phillips PR Core Inc. Core Phillips Petroleum Co./ BP PLC/BP Exploration Aug-01 Phillips Alaska Inc. (Alaska) Inc.
Sun Co. Inc. Shell Chemical Co./Shell Dec-01 Chemical Tosco Corp./Tosco Rifining Co. Phillips Petroleum Co./ Sep-01 Phillips 66 Co.
Tosco Corp./Tosco Petro Co. Phillips Petroleum Co./ Sep-01 Phillips 66 Co.
Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Valero Energy Corp./ Dec-01 Corp./Ultramar Inc. Ultramar Inc.
Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Valero Energy Corp./ Dec-01 Corp./Diamond Shamrock Diamond Shamrock Refining Refining & Marketing Co. & Marketing Co.
Ultramar Diamond Sharock Valero Energy Corp./TPI Dec-01 Corp./ TPI Petroleum Inc. Petroleum Inc.
Ultramar Diamond shamrock Valero Energy Corp./ Dec-01 Corp./Colorado Refining Co. Colorado Refining Co.
b/cd barrels per calendar day; b/sd barrels per stream day
Source: Energy Information Administration, Petroleum Supply Annual 2001, Vol. 1, Table 49.
Great story, I didn’t know the origins of the name!
Funny, huh?
.-= joanne at frutto della passione´s last blog ..Expats say the darndest things =-.
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How do I love Spaghetti Puttanesca!!! I use a combo or green and black olives. It’s the first dish I ever made with anchovies. I never cooked with them growing up.
Yea I always skip the anchovies… maybe I will add them next time!
.-= nyc/caribbean ragazza´s last blog ..Return to Sperlonga, Grottos, Cherries and the Macarena. =-.
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I didn’t know the origin either, we love this dish, so simple, so tasty..
We love all the ingredients, including anchovies…I always have all this in my cupboard..just in case !!
Isn’t it a funny origin, either way? It was so obvious, yet I never thought of it!
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the anchovies “sotto sale” are THE BEST. You have to clean them but it takes a second. you only use one or two–it’s totally worth it. and when you melt them in the oil it just adds that little something…
as for the origins of the name, jeremy (my fiance’) wrote this post a couple of years ago that suggest they may be quite different than we all commonly believe:
http://dobianchi.com/2008/01/13/the-origins-of-sugo-alla-puttanesca/
who knew?
Ahh, interesting. The world may *never* know!
Thanks for sharing his post.
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