Pasta al pomodoro
Pasta al pomodoro is a pasta dish typically prepared with fresh tomatoes, extra virgin olive oil, garlic, basil, and salt. It is intended to be a quick and light dish, rather than a dish in a heavy sauce. Pomodoro means 'tomato' in Italian. More specifically, pomodoro is a univerbation of pomo ('apple') + d ('of') + oro ('gold'), possibly owing to the fact that the first varieties of tomatoes arriving in Europe and spreading from Spain to Italy and North Africa were yellow, with the earliest attestation (of the archaic plural form pomi d'oro) going back to Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1544).
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