Celina Coppetti
Artist: Celina Coppetti // @thecelinacoppetti
50% of proceeds from this puzzle will be donated to: Focus on Youth
My puzzle is called Puttanesche. (Plural for Puttanesca)
Inspired by Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and (my favorite) pasta alla puttanesca. I love this pasta because there are just as many ingredient variations as there are origin stories - depending on who taught you to make it. Of course there’s tomato sauce, capers, and olives, in particular those from Gaeta - and obviously oil - there are those who add tomato paste, oregano, anchovies. As for it’s origin, I was always told that it’s made up of ingredients that one could find at a bodega after ending her night at a brothel; another story finds in origins in a brothel house in the Spanish Quarters where it was served to guests; another credits a French prostitute named Yvette; there’s the story of the green, red and purple colors of the recipe that resembles flashy underwear. In reality, sugo alla puttanesca was invented in the 1950s by Ischian jet-setter Sandro Petti, co-owner of Ischia’s famed restaurant and nightspot, Il Rancio Fellone. When asked by his friends to cook for them one evening, Petti found his pantry bare. When he told his friends that he had nothing to cook for them, they responded by saying “just make us a ‘puttanata qualsiasi,’” in other words, “just make us whatever crap you have”.
Artist: Celina Coppetti // @thecelinacoppetti
50% of proceeds from this puzzle will be donated to: Focus on Youth
My puzzle is called Puttanesche. (Plural for Puttanesca)
Inspired by Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and (my favorite) pasta alla puttanesca. I love this pasta because there are just as many ingredient variations as there are origin stories - depending on who taught you to make it. Of course there’s tomato sauce, capers, and olives, in particular those from Gaeta - and obviously oil - there are those who add tomato paste, oregano, anchovies. As for it’s origin, I was always told that it’s made up of ingredients that one could find at a bodega after ending her night at a brothel; another story finds in origins in a brothel house in the Spanish Quarters where it was served to guests; another credits a French prostitute named Yvette; there’s the story of the green, red and purple colors of the recipe that resembles flashy underwear. In reality, sugo alla puttanesca was invented in the 1950s by Ischian jet-setter Sandro Petti, co-owner of Ischia’s famed restaurant and nightspot, Il Rancio Fellone. When asked by his friends to cook for them one evening, Petti found his pantry bare. When he told his friends that he had nothing to cook for them, they responded by saying “just make us a ‘puttanata qualsiasi,’” in other words, “just make us whatever crap you have”.
Artist: Celina Coppetti // @thecelinacoppetti
50% of proceeds from this puzzle will be donated to: Focus on Youth
My puzzle is called Puttanesche. (Plural for Puttanesca)
Inspired by Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and (my favorite) pasta alla puttanesca. I love this pasta because there are just as many ingredient variations as there are origin stories - depending on who taught you to make it. Of course there’s tomato sauce, capers, and olives, in particular those from Gaeta - and obviously oil - there are those who add tomato paste, oregano, anchovies. As for it’s origin, I was always told that it’s made up of ingredients that one could find at a bodega after ending her night at a brothel; another story finds in origins in a brothel house in the Spanish Quarters where it was served to guests; another credits a French prostitute named Yvette; there’s the story of the green, red and purple colors of the recipe that resembles flashy underwear. In reality, sugo alla puttanesca was invented in the 1950s by Ischian jet-setter Sandro Petti, co-owner of Ischia’s famed restaurant and nightspot, Il Rancio Fellone. When asked by his friends to cook for them one evening, Petti found his pantry bare. When he told his friends that he had nothing to cook for them, they responded by saying “just make us a ‘puttanata qualsiasi,’” in other words, “just make us whatever crap you have”.