This month the Pass the Cookbook crew - under the leadership of Kita, the culinary force behind Pass the Sushi - is cooking from Mario Batali's Molto Gusto: Easy Italian Cooking . As always, we had the choice of three recipes. Our choices: Broiled Pumpkin with Apples , Ricotta Copetta, and Penne alla Puttanesca . While the sound of all three made my mouth water, I opted to do a riff on the penne, whipping up a lasagna version of the dish. Given the history of the dish - I'll get to that in a moment - I could call this 'Ladies of the Evening Lasagna.' Now to the history. I've heard a few different versions; the last one is the one I've heard the most...and the one I heard when I lived in Italy. Pick the explanation that you like the best! To begin puttana is Italian for prostitute. Whore. Slut. It's not a nice word. One explanation of how the dish got its moniker claims that at the end of the evening's business, the prostitutes would beg...