I enjoyed reading the history of puttanesca. About spaghettoni pizzati: I’ve never heard of them before. Did you make it up or is it just one of those local Italian recipes I don’t know because there are so many? Or is it Italian-American maybe?
Hi Giovanna - Not sure I can claim an invention for just adding mozzarella to puttanesca, but the only pasta recipes I've found from Italy that use 'Pizzati' or alla pizzaiola in the name are from 2011, 2015 and 2021 - and I haven't found one yet that that combines tomato, anchovies, capers, olives and mozzarella in quite this way... so maybe it is mine after all!
I enjoyed reading the history of puttanesca. About spaghettoni pizzati: I’ve never heard of them before. Did you make it up or is it just one of those local Italian recipes I don’t know because there are so many? Or is it Italian-American maybe?
Hi Giovanna - Not sure I can claim an invention for just adding mozzarella to puttanesca, but the only pasta recipes I've found from Italy that use 'Pizzati' or alla pizzaiola in the name are from 2011, 2015 and 2021 - and I haven't found one yet that that combines tomato, anchovies, capers, olives and mozzarella in quite this way... so maybe it is mine after all!
Ahah. Fair enough. You did invent the name then.