"Which Italian spaghetti literally means ""little worms""?"
Vermicelli custard on top. Vermicelli Vermicelli (, lit. "little worms") is a traditional type of pasta round in section similar to spaghetti. In Italy vermicelli is slightly thicker than spaghetti, but in the United States it is slightly thinner. Vermicelli is also used to describe various types of thin noodles in Asia. As defined in Italy: In the United States, the National Pasta Association (which has no links with its Italian counterpart, the Unione Industriali Pastai Italiani) lists vermicelli as a thinner type of spaghetti. The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America defines "spaghetti" and "vermicelli" by
Spaghetti alla puttanesca Spaghetti alla puttanesca Spaghetti alla puttanesca (; literally "spaghetti in the style of a whore" in Italian) is an Italian pasta dish invented in Naples in the mid-20th century. Its ingredients typically include tomatoes, olive oil, anchovies, olives, capers and garlic. Various accounts exist as to when and how the dish originated, but it likely dates to the mid-twentieth century. The earliest known mention of it is in Raffaele La Capria’s "Ferito a Morte" ("Mortal Wound"), a 1961 Italian novel which mentions ""spaghetti alla puttanesca come li fanno a Siracusa" (spaghetti alla puttanesca as they make it in Syracuse)". The