Abruzzo
Academy of Italy
Accademia dei Lincei (Academy of Lynxes)
Accademia Tiberina
account books, kitchen,
acorns
acqua e sale (acqua-sale)
additives, food
Adventures of Pinocchio, The (Collodi)
advertising
Africa
Agnano
Agnesi, Vincenzo
Agnetti, Vittorio
Agnoletti, Vincenzo
agnolotti (stuffed pasta)
agribusiness
Aime, Heirom
“Alaska Salmon in the Sun’s Rays” (recipe)
Albenga
Aldrovandi, Ulisse
Algeria
allgood (erba sana)
Alliata di Salaparuta, Enrico
Almanach des gourmands, L’ (Grimod)
almonds
Althea Company
Amalfi
amaretti (almond macaroons)
Amatrice
American Automobile Association
Americano a Roma, Un (film; Steno)
Americas, European discovery of
anchovies
ancients, as source of knowledge
Andalusia
Angelita, Gianfranco
Angels’ Kitchen, The (painting; Murillo)
antioxidants,
antipasto. See also course, of meal
antiquity, medical literature of
Apennines
aphrodisiac, foods as
Appert, Nicolas
apple; golden; as term for fruits. See also love apple
Arabs, introduction of eggplant by
Aranjuez
Archidipno (Massonio)
Arcimboldo, Giuseppe
Arezzo
Argentina; Italian immigrants in
Arno River,
arsenic poisoning
“Artichoke king.” See Terranova, Ciro
artichokes
Artusi, Pellegrino
arugula
asado (mixed grill)
Asgrow Company
asparagus
astrattu (tomato extract). See also paste, tomato
Atlantic Ocean, crossing of: by people; by tomatoes,
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!, The (film; De Bello)
Aurum (liqueur)
Australia
autarchy
Aversa
Avigliano
Aztecs, use of tomato by
bacon. See also lard; pork fat
bagna (sauce)
bakeries
Baldoni, Remigio
bananas
Barberini, Antonio (cardinal)
Bari
Barilla Company
barley
Barufe in famegia, Le (Gallina)
basil
Basilicata
bathtub, and tomato cultivation
battle for grain (Fascist campaign)
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)
beans. See also legumes
Belgium
belladonna
Belli, Giuseppe
Benedictines
Benso, Camillo (count of Cavour)
Bethell, Richard (Lord Westbury)
Biardot, Alphonse
Bible
Bicchierai, Luigi (“Pennino”)
biennio rosso (postwar period)
biscuits
Bizzozero, Antonio
black market
Boboli Gardens
Boiardi, Ettore
Bollettino dell’emigrazione
bollito (boiled-meat dish)
Bologna
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Bonsignori, Giovanni
Borsati, Francesco
botanical gardens and collections
botany: classifications in; as new discipline; use of illustrations in; works of
boules (vacuum boilers)
Bourbon dynasty
Brazil
bread; crumbs; crusts of; rationing of; stale; white
Breckinbridge, Sophonisba
Brescia
Brindisi
brine, to preserve tomatoes
broccoli,
broccoli rabe (rape)
brodetto al pomodoro (tomato soup)
Bronx (New York City)
Bronzino, Agnolo
Brooklyn (New York City)
broth
bucatini all’amatriciana (pasta dish)
Buenos Aires
butter
Buzzi, Paolo
cabbage; use of stalk of
cafeterias, company
Cagliari
Calabria
Calabria Citeriore
calcium salts
calendar, Catholic
California; “Italian” tomatoes from
Campania
Campora, Vincenzo
Canada
canning, of tomatoes. See also processing, of tomatoes
capers
Capitanata
caporale (gang boss)
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da
carcadè (karkadë; Egyptian hibiscus tea)
cardoons (edible thistle stalks)
Caressa Company
Caribbean
Carillo y Salcedo, Esteban
Carlo Erba Company
Carosello (television program)
carrots
Casa Professa (Jesuit headquarters)
Caserta
cassuola alla spagnola (tomato casserole; recipe)
Castelfiorentino
Castellammare
Castelli, Pietro
Castelvetro, Giacomo
Catania
Catanzaro
cauliflower; use of stalk of
Cavalcanti, Ippolito
Cavallo, Mimmo
Ceci, Gherini, and Company, workforce at
Celebrated Mock Italian Song, The (print; Cruikshank)
celery
Cerreto (Sannita)
Cesalpino, Andrea
Cesi, Federico
Cesta, Antonio
Chabrol de Volvic, Gilbert
chamber of commerce, Italian
Channel Islands
Chapusot, François
Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon
Charles (duke of Södermanland)
cheese; grated; mozzarella; Parmesan (Parmigiano-Reggiano); Pecorino; rationing of
Chef Boiardi Food Products Company
chestnuts
chicken
chicken cacciatore
Chico (California)
chicory
Chile
chilies; baccato; sun-dried. See also peppers, sweet
China
chocolate. See also cocoa
cholera
Christian Democratic Party
Ciambelli, Bernardino
Cibo Malaspino, Lorenzo
cinnamon
Cinotto, Simone
Cirio, Francesco
Cirio Company; advertising by; bankruptcy of; recipe booklets by; tomato-processing plant of
Citati, Pietro
Classes plantarum (Linnaeus)
classification: of foods; of plants
Cleveland (Ohio)
coal, mining of
coal tar, as coloring
Cocchi, Antonio
cocoa
coffee; rationing of; substitute for
coffeehouses
colewort
colì di pomodoro (sauce)
Collegio Romano
Collinson, Peter
Collodi, Carlo
colonies, African
color, of tomatoes
colorings, food
Colorno
Coltivazione del pomodoro, La (Bonsignori)
Coltivazione industriale del pomodoro, La (Zago)
Comanini, Gregorio
commedia dell’arte (theatrical style)
Common Agricultural Policy. See also European Union
concentrate, tomato; double; of modified tomatoes; sextuple; triple. See also paste, tomato
condijon (condiglione; Ligurian salad)
condiment: tomato as; tomato ketchup as
confraternities (lay religious brotherhoods)
conserva (tomato paste); nera. See also paste, tomato
conservatism, dietary
Constituent Assembly
consumption; conspicuous; of tomatoes,
convents
Conversazione in Sicilia (Vittorini)
cookbooks,
cooking: American; Argentine; Flemish; French; Futurist; Italian; Italian American; Mediterranean; Polish; Spanish
Corigliano
corn. See maize
Cornell University
Corrado, Vincenzo
Corresca, Rocco
Corricolo, Le (Dumas)
Cortés, Hernán
cotoletta alla milanese (veal cutlet)
cotton
“Country Crime” (recipe)
course, of meal: first; main; second; third
courts, princely
Covello, Leonard
Cremona,
crostata dolce. See “Sweet Pie”
crostini (seasoned toasted bread)
Cruikshank, Isaac
Cuba
Cucchiaio d’argento, Il (Rossi Lodomez and Matricardi)
Cucina autarchica, La (Randi)
Cucina casereccia, La
Cucina italiana, La (magazine)
Cucina teorico-pratica (Cavalcanti)
Cucina vegetariana (Alliata di Salaparuta)
cucumbers
cultivation, of tomatoes
Cuneo
Cuoco galante, Il (Corrado)
curiosities, collections of
Custis, John
dairy products. See also cheese
Dal Bono, Carlo Tito
Dalla cucina al salotto (Morelli)
Dallington, Robert
Dalmonte, Luigi
dandelion
D’Annunzio, Gabriele, xi
David, Elizabeth
day laborers
De Amicis, Edmondo
De Bello, John
De Bono, Emilio
De Curtis, Antonio. See also Totò
De Filippo, Eduardo
De Gasperi, Alcide
Del cibo pitagorico overo erbaceo (Corrado)
Del Gaizo, Florindo
DeLillo, Don
Della cultura degli orti e giardini (Soderini)
De’ Medici: Alessandro (1510–1537); Catherine (1519–1589); Cosimo I (1519–1574); Cosimo III (1642–1723); Francesco (1541–1587); Maria (1575–1642),
denomination of protected origin (EU designation)
Dépardieu, Gérard
department stores
De plantis libri (Cesalpino)
Descrizione dell’isola di Sardegna
De Sica, Vittorio
Desinaretti per … questi tempi (Moretti Foggia)
dessert; pasta as
dialects, Italian
diaspora, Italian. See emigration, Italian
diet: of Franciscans; of Italian immigrants; of Jesuits; of Jews; Mediterranean; national variations in; of nobles; onboard ship; pasta as part of; of peasants; of Poles; of return migrants; subsistence; of urban poor; of working class. See also food
dietetics
digestion
Dioscorides
Discorsi … della medicina materiale, I (Mattioli)
disease: anemia; cancer; epidemic; eye; heart, ix; metabolic; obesity; scabies; syphilis; tomato-induced; of tomatoes; treatment of; vegetable diet as cure for
doctors, medical. See physicians Doctors Without Borders (Médecins sans frontières)
Domenica del Corriere, La (magazine)
Doria di Montaldeo
drying: of pasta; of tomatoes
Duce, il. See Mussolini, Benito
suggerimenti per … questi tempi (Moretti Foggia)
Dumas, Alexandre
Durante, Castore
Ecuador
eel
eggplant; tomato compared with
eggplant Parmesan (melanzane alla parmigiana, parmigiana di melanzane)
eggs; shortage and rationing of
“Eggs and Tomatoes” (recipe)
emigration, Italian. See also immigration: Italian; migration
Emilia Romagna
endive
England. See also Great Britain
English Journey (Priestly)
Ente Nazionale Risi (national rice board)
Erbario miniato (Cesi)
escarole
Escoffier, Georges Auguste
Escorial (palace)
Esposito, Raffaele,
Este, Isabella d’ (marquise of Mantua)
Ethiopia; invasion of
European Common Market. See also European Union
Europeans, eastern
European Union (EU)
Evelyn, John
exoticism, of New World plants and animals
experiment
export: subsidies for; of tomato products; of vegetable produce
Fabriano
“Faccetta nera” (song; Ruccione and Micheli)
factories; for tomato processing
Famigli di Marinari (print; Gaetano Dura)
family: diet of; role of
Fano
Fante, John
Far East
farm hands (braccianti). See also day laborers
farms: experimental; organic
Fascism
Fascist Party, Italian; farmwives’ section of (Massaie rurali); food policy of
fattaccio campestre. See “Country Crime”
Felici, Costanzo
Felino
fennel
Ferdinand I (Holy Roman Emperor)
Ferdinand II (king of Naples)
Ferrari, Giovanni Battista
Ferrières, Madeleine
fertilization, of tomatoes
Fiat Company
figs
Fillìa (Luigi Colombo)
Fiorillo, Silvio
Fiorini, Laura
fish
flag, Italian
flavor, of tomatoes
flies, during tomato drying
Florence; cooking of
Flowers, Fruits, Vegetables, and Two Lizards (painting; Master of the Hartford Still-Life)
Foggia
Fondi
Fontainebleau, Treaty of
food: aid; comfort; consumption patterns of; convenience; distribution of; frozen; overproduction of; poisoning; preservation of; as proportion of domestic expenditure; rationing of; regional; shortages of; and social status; traditional; technology
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (1939)
Forlì
Fortunate Pilgrim, The (Puzo)
Four Seasons (paintings; Arcimboldo)
Fragrans (seasoning)
Francavilla Fontana
France
Franciscans, diet of
Franco-American Company
Fratelli Ingegnoli catalogo guida (seed catalog)
fresh, meaning of
frittata con pomi d’oro (tomato omelet)
Friuli
fruit; citrus; as harmful; as healthful; peddling of; in salads; tomato as
Futurism
Galen
Galenic classification
Gallina, Giacinto
Gallipoli (Puglia)
Gallo, Agostino
Galluzzi, Riguccio
gangs, labor
gardeners; head; market
Gardener’s Dictionary, The (Miller)
gardening literature
gardens; Boboli; botanical; kitchen; market; ornamental; pleasure; recreational; as theater of the world; “victory,”
Garibaldi, Giuseppe
garlands, decorative
garlic
Gastarbeiter (guest worker)
gastrosophy
gatafura (cheese pie),
Gatti, Fabrizio
Gaudentio, Francesco
gazpacho, tomatoes in
Gazzetta del Popolo, La (newspaper)
genetic modification
Geneva
Genoa,
genre scenes
Gentile, Maria
Gerard, John
Germany; cabbage eating in; export of fresh tomatoes to. See also West Germany
Ghana
Ghini, Luca
Giordano, Arturo
Giordano, Ottobuono
Giornalino di Gian Burrasca, Il (Vamba)
giornatari (day laborer). See also day laborers; farm hands
glutamic acid
gluttony
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Gorizia
Gragnano
grape must, cooked
grapes; sour (uva agresta; condiment)
grappa
Gratarolo, Guglielmo
gravy (meat sauce); recipe for
Great Britain; import of processed tomatoes by; Italian food in; as “taste zone,”
Greece
Greenbush (Madison, Wisconsin)
greengrocers
greens. See also salads; vegetables
Greenwich Village (New York City)
Grimod de la Reynière, A. B. L.
gross domestic product
Gruppo Conserve Italia
guaiacum
guanciale (cured pig’s jowl)
Guida gastronomica d’Italia (Touring Club Italiano)
guilds (trade)
Guttuso, Renato
hardtack
Harrison, William
harvesting, of tomatoes; mechanical
“heirloom” tomatoes. See tomatoes: varieties of
Helstosky, Carol
henbane
Henri II (king of France)
herbalists
herbals
Herbario nuovo (Durante)
herbs
Hernández, Francisco
herring
Hesperides (Greek nymphs)
Hippocrates
H. J. Heinz Company
Hollywood (California)
horseradishes
Hortus Messanensis (Castelli)
hospitals: Hospital de la Sangre (Seville); Ospedale dei Pellegrini (Naples)
housewives: Fascist ideal of; instruction of; postwar roles of
humanism
humors: melancholic; qualities of
hunger; as political issue
husk tomato. See tomatillo
identity
Illinois
illustration: botanical; of natural world
Illustrato Fiat (magazine)
immigration: African; Italian
impepata (molignanelle; eggplant dish)
imports, of food
In Cucina con amore (Loren)
India
Indiana
Indian corn. See maize
Indies, notion of
industrial “triangle” (Milan-Turin-Genoa)
industry: food; pasta
Ingegnoli Company
inns; Red Crayfish. See also taverns
irrigation
Istituto Artigianelli
Italian Communist Party
Italian Cookbook, The (Gentile)
Italian Food (David)
Italianità (notion of Italian identity)
Italian Social Movement
Italy: disappearance of tomatillo from; economic boom in; eggplant in; food culture in; food industry in; immigration to; internal migration in; and “made in Italy” label; manufacture of pasta in; Nazi control of; New World plants in; north–south divide in; rationing in; southern; study of botany in; as “taste zone,”; unification of
Jacini Parliamentary Inquiry (1878)
Jacquot, Félix
Japan
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Jews, diet of
Joseph A. Campbell Preserve Company
Joubert, Laurent
juice: fruit; lemon; tomato
ketchup
kitchens; account books of; gardens for; ranges (cucine economiche) in; second; soup (cucine popolari)
Kraft Company
labeling. See also packaging
labor: child; cost of; gang; seasonal; unrest
Ladies Dictionary, Being a General Entertainment of the Fair-Sex, The
Ladri di biciclette (film; De Sica)
Lalande, Jérôme de
lampaggiolo (type of onion)
Lampedusa
landowners
Landry, Nicolas
Lanital (synthetic wool)
lard (lardo; hard bacon fat). See also bacon; pork fat
La Rosa and Sons Company
lasagne. See also pasta
La Spezia
Latini, Antonio
Lazio
League of Nations
Leblanc, Jean-Gabriel
Leghorn. See Livorno
legumes; rationing of; use of skins of. See also beans
Lémery, Louis
lemon
Lenormant, François
lentils
Leogrande, Alessandro
lettuce
Levi, Carlo
Levitico (Jesuit dietary rules)
Levoli, Nicola
Lewis, Tillie
Libya; tomato cultivation in
lignite (brown coal)
Liguria
Lingozzi, Jacopo
Linné, Carl von (Carolus Linnaeus)
Lippi, Lorenzo
litharge (lead monoxide)
Little Caesar (film; Mervyn LeRoy)
Livingston, Alexander
Livorno
Lizzano
Lombardy
London
Longarini, Pier Luigi, xiii Long Island
Looking for Alibrandi (Marchetta)
Loren, Sophia (Sofia Scicolone)
Loreto
Louisiana
love apple (apple of love)
Lucca
lupines
lycopene,
Lycopersicon galeni (Galen’s wolf-peach)
macaroni; Neapolitan style; packaging of; term, as ethnic slur. See also pasta
Maccaronari (macaroni makers and sellers)
maccheroni. See also macaroni
Macerata
machinery
Maddaloni
Madrid
Mafia
Magelli, Ettore
Magini, Carlo
maize (corn); depictions of; early attempts to cultivate; genetically modified; U.S. subsidies for growing
malaria
Malavoglia, I (Verga)
Malmantile racquistato, Il (Lippi)
mandrake
Mangia Maccaroni (print; Gaetano Dura)
Mangione, Jerre
“Manifesto of Futurist Cuisine” (Marinetti and Fillìa)
manioc
Mantua,
Manuale dell’ortolano (Roda)
Manzi, Tito
Marca Bianca
Marche
Marchetta, Melina
Marelli Company
Margherita (queen of Italy)
Maria Luigia (duchess of Parma)
Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso
markets, vegetable; Ortomercato (Milan); Porta Palazzo (Turin); in World War II
marmitta di maccaroni (baked macaroni dish)
Marotta, Giuseppe
marrows. See also squash
Marshall Plan
Martinelli, Tristano;
Martino of Como
Massaie contro le sanzioni, Le (Morelli)
Massonio, Salvatore
Mastrocinque, Camillo
Matese
Matricardi, Franca
Mattino, Il (newspaper)
Mattioli, Mario
Mattioli, Pietro Andrea
Maya, use of tomato by
McGee, Harold
meal, structure of. See also course, of meal
meat; canned; consumption of; curing of; in diet of Italian immigrants; in diet of return migrants; tomato as substitute for
meatballs
meatless days
“Meat Sauce, The” (poem; De Filippo)
medicine: ancient; and botany; changing focus of; “chemical,”; commercialization of; “mechanical,”; use of tomato in. See also physicians
Mediterranean
“Mediterranean diet,”
“Mediterranean garden,”
Melfi
melons
menstruation
Mericani (return migrants)
Messina
Mexican ground-cherry. See tomatillo
Mexico
Micheli, Giuseppe
Michiel, Pietro Antonio
Middle East
Miglianico
migration: internal; return
Milan; southern Italians in
milanesa napolitana (Argentine veal cutlet)
milk
Miller, Philip
miltomatle See tomatillo Mina (Mina Anna Mazzini)
minestra (soup), term, as ethnic slur
minestra alla molignane (eggplant dish; recipe)
minestrella (tomato pulp)
minestrone. See also soups mint (herb)
minuzzaglie (pasta bin-ends)
Miracolo a Milano (film; De Sica)
Mirafiori Sud (Turin)
Miseria e nobiltà (film; Mario Mattioli)
Misteri di Mulberry, I (Ciambelli)
Mitelli, Giuseppe Maria,
Modena
“Modernizing Dish” (recipe)
Molise
Mondragone
Monopoli
monosodium glutamate (MSG)
Monsanto Company
monti frumentari (seed banks)
Montreal
Moorhead, Alan
Morelli, Lidia
Moretti Foggia, Amalia (“Petronilla”)
mortadella
mortaretto (filled-pastry antipasto)
Mr Fothergill’s A–Z of Vegetables (seed catalog)
mullet
municipal welfare boards (enti comunali di assistenza)
Murillo, Bartolomé
mushrooms
Mussolini, Benito; diet of
Mussolini, Rachele
mustard
mutton
mythology, Greek
Naples (city),; diet of poor in; industry in; pasta in; tomato paste in
Naples (kingdom)
Naples, Bay of
Napoli, José
nasturtiums
nationalism: in advertising; dietary notions of
New Homes for Old (Breckinbridge)
New Jersey
New Spain
New World, plants from. See also beans; chilies; maize; potatoes; tomatoes
New York City; Italian population of
Nicastro
Nice (city)
nightshade
nitrate of soda. See also fertilization, of tomatoes
Nix, John
Nola
nomenclature, binomial
non-Italian words, rejection of
North Africa
novelty, attitude toward
Nuova cucina delle specialità regionali, La (Agnetti)
Nuovi orizzonti per la vostra mensa (Cirio)
nutmeg
nutrition
oil: cotton; rose; tomato seed
oil, olive; for lighting lamps; in preserving foods; shortage and rationing of
omelet
onions
Ons kookboek (cookbook)
oregano
Ortolano dirozzato, L’ (Re)
oysters,
packaging. See also labeling
“Pact of Steel” (1939)
Padua; cricket eating in
“Painting-Sculpture Summer Lunch” (recipe)
Palazzo Vecchio (Florence)
Palermo
Pampas (Argentina)
Pandice, Giovanni
“Panunto toscano, Il” (recipe collection; Gaudentio)
panzanella (bread-and-vegetable dish)
Papal States
pappa col pomodoro (bread-and-tomato soup)
Paracelsus
Paris (city)
Paris (mythical figure)
Parma (Italy); labor unrest in; tomato processing in
Parma (Ohio)
parsley
passata (thickened tomato sauce)
pasta; Barilla; Buitoni; cooking times of; Futurist campaign against; history of; increasing consumption of; “medicated,”; in Naples; rationing of; as street food. See also macaroni
pasta al pomodoro
pasta asciutta (pastasciutta)
paste, tomato; export of; as part of soldiers’ rations; recipe for; tariff on. See also concentrate, tomato; conserva
pasticciata (dish)
peanuts
peas; canned
peasants: diet of; economy of
pelati (canned whole tomatoes)
Pellet, Marcellin
Pennino, V. G.
Pennsylvania
pennyroyal (herb)
pepper, black
peppers, sweet. See also chilies
“Peppino” (short story; Ventura)
Perrini, Francesco
Persia
Peru
Pescara
pesticides
Petoseed Company
Petrini, Carlo
pharmacopoeias, tomatoes in
Philip II (king of Spain)
philosophy, Indian
Physalis ixocarpa. See tomatillo
physicians; anti-vegetable views of; pro-vegetable views of; study of botany by; and tomatoes
Piacenza
Piedmont
Piovene, Guido
Pisa; botanical garden in; cathedral doors of
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)
pizza; history of
pizza Margherita
Placido, Michele, 204
Plantes potagères, Les (Vilmorin-Andrieux)
Plant Industry Station (Beltsville, Maryland)
plants, New World: classification of; curiosity about; drying of; exoticism of; identification of; as ornamental; reaction to. See also botany
Pliny
plum tomato. See tomatoes: varieties of: egg-shaped
Poggio a Caiano
Poland
polenta; declining consumption of; rationing of; term, as ethnic slur
Polistena
Polk, James
pollution
Polpette al pomodoro, Le (Saba)
pomarola (Tuscan tomato sauce)
pomidori alla Napolitana (tomatoes, Neapolitan style; recipe)
pomidoro sul prato. See “Tomatoes on the Lawn”
pomme d’amour (apple of love)
pomodorata (tomato throwing)
Pomo d’oro, Il (opera; Cesta)
Pomodoro, Il (Rovetta)
pomodoro (pomo d’oro), use of term
Pomodoro fresco a ogni stagione (Cirio)
Pomodoro industriale e da tavola, Il (Baldoni)
Ponte a Signa
“Poor Man’s Meat Sauce” (recipe)
Po River valley
pork fat. See also bacon; lard
Portici
Porto Maurizio (now Imperia)
Portugal
potatoes adoption of; ancient attribution of; shortage and rationing of
Potenza
poverty
Pozzuoli
Prato
preservatives
preserves, tomato
Prezzolini, Giuseppe
prices: fixed; of pizza; of tomatoes
prickly pear cactus
Priestly, J. B.
Primavera (tapestry; Bronzino)
Principato Citeriore
Prinetti Adamoli, Lucia
processing, of tomatoes
Prohibition
propaganda; of Fascists
prosperity, economic
Provence (France)
proverbs
Providence (Rhode Island)
Puglia
Pujati, Giuseppe Antonio
Pulcinella
Pummaro’ (film; Placido)
pummarola (pommarola; Neapolitan)
purè di pomodoro (sauce)
purée, tomato
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Puzo, Mario
Pythagoras
Questione agraria e l’emigrazione in Calabria, La
rabbit
radicchio
radio: American; Italian (RAI)
radishes
ragù (meat sauce). See also sauces
railways; Canadian Pacific
rampions
Randi, Elisabetta
Rangone, Tommaso
rapini. See also broccoli rabe
ratatouille (Provençal eggplant-and-tomato dish)
rationing, of food
Ravenna
Ray, John
Re, Filippo
Rea, Domenico
recipes; booklets of; “formula” as term for
Redi, Francesco
refrigerators
Reggio Calabria
Remedello Sopra
remittances
Renaissance
Repubblica, La (newspaper)
Rerum medicarum Novae Hispaniae thesaurus (Hernández)
restaurants; Italian American
Rhode Island
rice; campaign in favor of; rationing of; U.S. subsidies for growing
Ricette di Petronilla per tempi eccezionali (Moretti Foggia)
Rinascente (department store)
Risorgimento. See also unification, of Italy risotto
ritual
River Bank Canning Company
Roda, Giuseppe
Roda, Marcellino
Rognoni, Carlo
Romania
Rome; liberation of; March on
Romoli, Domenico (“Il Panonto”)
Root, Waverley
rosemary (herb)
Rossi Lodomez, Vera
Rovetta, Renato
Royal Society (London)
Ruccione, Mario
Rudolph II (emperor)
Russell, Lucy (countess of Bedford)
Russia
rye
Saba, Umberto;
Sabato, domenica e lunedì (play; De Filippo)
Sacchi, Bartolomeo (“Platina”)
Sahagún, Bernardino da
Sala, Giovanni Domenico
salads. See also “September Salad”
salami
Salerno
salsa: compared with sugo; di pomodoro; rossa; rubra; verde; verde (Mexican)
salsa di pomodoro alla spagnola (tomato sauce, Spanish style; recipe)
salt
Saluzzo
Salviati, Francesco
samfaína (Catalonian eggplant-and tomato dish)
San Cataldo (Basilicata)
sandwiches
San Giovanni a Teduccio
San Marco in Lamis
Santa Maria Capua Vetere
Santi Spampinato Company
San Trovaso (island)
Sanzio, Raphael
Sapersi nutrire (Alimenti)
Sardinia
Sarno River
sauces; “mock” (sugo finto); ready-made; tomato; tomato leaves in; “tricolor,”. See also salsa
sausage
Savinio, Alberto
Savona
Savoy dynasty
Scalco alla moderna, Lo (Latini)
Scena Illustrata, La (magazine)
Scienza in cucina e l’arte di mangiar bene, La (Artusi)
scorzonera
seed banks
seed catalogs and companies
seeds: coffee from; development and sale of; EU lists of; exchange of; heirloom; hybridization of; oil from; removal of; sesame; sterility of
Sele River
“September Salad” (recipe)
Serao, Matilde
Sereni, Emilio
Sesto San Giovanni
Seville
Sforza (dukes)
Sforza d’Aragona, Bona
Sgaravatti Company
shallots
shape: of pasta; of tomatoes
Sherman, M.
shops; family; looting of; in World War II
Shriver, Alexis
Siamo meridionali (Cavallo)
Sicily
Siena
Sigismund I (king of Poland)
Sila mountains
simples, gardens of. See also gardens: botanical
Singolar dottrina di m. D. Romoli, La (Romoli)
Siracusa
slavery, labor
Slow Food movement
smell
Smith, Andrew
Società anonima di coltivatori per la preparazione delle conserve di pomodoro (tomato-processing company)
Soderini, Gianvettorio
Solanaceae (family)
Solanum (genus)
Somalia
Somma, Luigi
Sora
Sordi, Alberto
soup kitchens
soups; “red,”; cubes; tomato
sources, discussion of;
South America
soybeans
spaghetti; canned; and meatballs; “weevil,”. See also macaroni; pasta
Spaghetti Dinner (Prezzolini)
“Spaghetti House” (poem; Campora)
Spain
Spatuzzi, Achille
spices; dried tomato as
spinach
Spoleto
squash
Standa (department store)
Statistica murattiana
Steno (Stefano Vanzina)
stereotypes, food;
stew
still-life paintings
Still Life with Fish on the Grill (painting; Levoli)
Still Life with Mullet, Grill, Wine Flask, and Glass (painting; Magini)
strikes
students, Polish
subsidies, agricultural
succo di carne (gravy)
sugar; consumption of; rationing of; in tomatoes
sugar beets
sugo (sauce); compared with salsa. See also sauce sugo della miseria. See “Poor Man’s Meat Sauce”
Sugoro (ready-made sauce)
Sunday meal
sun-dried tomatoes
sunflowers
supermarkets
Supreme Court (U.S.)
Sweden
“Sweet Pie” (recipe)
sweet potatoes
Swiss chard
Switzerland
symbolism
“Tagliatelle in Tomato Sauce with Shallots” (recipe)
tapestries
Targioni Tozzetti, Adolfo
Targioni Tozzetti, Giovanni
Targioni Tozzetti, Ottaviano
tariffs: Australian; EU; U.S.
taste. See flavor, of tomatoes
Taverna (Calabria)
taverns. See also inns
Tavoliere (agricultural region)
tenant farmers (mezzadri)
terracing, mountainside
Terra di Lavoro
Terranova, Ciro (“Artichoke king”)
Testaccio (Rome)
Teti, Vito
Theophrastus
thrift
tin
tobacco
Togliatti, Palmiro
Toledo, Eleonora di
tomatillo; compared with tomato
tomatine
tomatl
tomatoes: acculturation of; additives in; agricultural subsidies for growing; ambivalence toward; as aphrodisiac; baked or grilled; bathtub cultivation of; bottling of; breeding of; brought to Europe; canning of; classification of; as “cold,”; color of; compared with eggplant; compared with tomatillo; as condiment; consumption of; cultivation of; current production of (Italy); depictions of; export of; fertilization of; first reaction to; flavor of; as fruit; in Futurist cuisine; genetic modification of; greenhouse cultivation of; as harmful; harvesting of; as healthful; in kingdom of Naples; as low-status plant; as medicinal plant; mythical associations of; names for; as ornamental plant; in peasant economy; in pharmacopoeias; physicians’ views of; as pill; price of; processing of; proverbs about; pulp of; raw; removing skins and seeds of; in salads; sale of; shape of; as “solar,”; sun-dried; as “superfood,”; sweetness of; throwing of; toxicity of; use of, by Aztecs; use of, by elites; use of, by Maya; wild; yields of. See also astrattu; concentrate, tomato; conserva; passata; paste, tomato; preserves, tomato; purée, tomato; sauces; individual dishes
VARIETIES OF: acidity of; beefsteak; ‘Cal-j’ ‘Calroma’ cherry; ‘Chico’ ‘Cuor di bue’ (Oxheart); determinate; development of; egg-shaped; ‘Ferrisi’ ‘Fiaschetto’ (‘Fiaschella’); ‘FlavrSavr’ furrowed or ribbed; ‘Geneva 11’ ‘Genovese’ ‘Heinz 1706’ “heirloom,”; hybrid ‘Hypeel’ indeterminate; ‘Ingegnoli’ ‘Isola’ ‘Italpeel’ ‘Lampadina’ ‘Livingston’s Marvel’ loss of; modern; ‘Nectar’ ‘Pachino’ ‘Pan American’ pear-shaped; ‘Perfect Peel’ ‘Petomech’ ‘Ponderosa’ ‘President Garfield’ ‘Principe Borghese’ ‘Red Top’ ‘Re Umberto’ (‘King Humbert’); ‘Roma’; round (tondo); ‘San Marzano’; ‘Snob’; ‘St. Louis’; ‘Sweet Millions’; traditional; trailing; ‘Tramonti’; ‘Ventura’
“Tomatoes on the Lawn” (recipe)
Toronto
Torre Annunziata
Totò (film character; Antonio De Curtis)
Totò, Peppino e la Malafemmina (film; Mastrocinque)
Totò a Parigi (film; Mastrocinque)
Touring Club Italiano (TCI)
tradition, role of
Trent, Council of
Tribolo, Niccolò
Tripalin Murray, Catherine,
tripe
Triumph of Camillus (fresco series; Sal viati)
truffles
Turin; southern Italians in
Turkey
turkeys
turnips
turtle dove
Tuscany; vegetable consumption in
Udine
Udine, Giovanni da
Umberto I (king of Italy)
Umbria
Underworld (Don DeLillo)
unification, of Italy. See also Risorgimento
United Kingdom. See Great Britain United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
United States; canned spaghetti in; Department of Commerce of; genetically modified tomatoes in; Old Northwest of; ‘Roma’ tomato in; tomato paste exported to; tomato processing in
universities: La Sapienza (Rome); Padua; Pisa
uova al piatto con pomidoro. See “Eggs and Tomatoes”
UPIM (department store)
Urban VIII (pope)
Urbino
Utica (New York)
vacuum packing
van Helmont, Jan Baptist
vanilla
Varese
Vasari, Giorgio
veal
veal parmigiano
veal scaloppini
vegetables: attitudes toward; benefits of; canned; consumption of; cultivation of; depictions of; in Italian immigrant diet; in Polish diet; raw; in religious institutions; sale of; seasonality of; side dishes of (contorni); in southern Italian diet; tomato listed as; “vegetable fruit,” notion of
vegetarianism
Veneto
Venice,
Ventre di Napoli, Il (Serao)
Ventura, Luigi Donato
Verde Barr, Nancy
Verga, Giovanni
Vergara, Joe
verjuice. See grapes: sour
Vermicellari (vermicelli makers)
vermicelli. See also pasta
Veronese, Paolo
Vertumnus (Roman god)
vetch
Viaggio in Italia (Piovene)
Viaggio per l’Italia di Giannettino, Il (Collodi)
Vicenza
Victor Emmanuel II (king of Italy)
Victoria (queen of England)
Vienna
Vigilio, Giovanni Battista
Vigo, Francis
Villa di Castello
Villa Farnesina (palace)
Vilmorin-Andrieux and Company
vinegar
Vinti giornate dell’agricoltura, Le (Gallo)
Vita di uno scalco, La (Latini)
vitamins
Vitto pitagorico, Del (Cocchi)
Vittoria (Sicily)
Vittorini, Elio
vivaio (garden feature)
Vivenza, Andrea
Volterra
walnuts
water. See also irrigation
West Germany
wheat; demand for; durum semolina; production of
wine; in company cafeterias; Marsala; in soldiers’ rations
women, contribution of
World Trade Organization
World War I
World War II
xitomatl. See Aztecs, use of tomato by
yields: of tomatoes; of wheat
yogurt
Zago, Ferruccio
Zanichelli Company
Zeri, Federico
Zerillo, Lorenzo
zucchini
zuppa alli pomodoro (tomato soup; recipe)