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Pomodoro means 'tomato' in Italian. [1] More specifically, pomodoro is a univerbation of pomo ('apple') + d ('of') + oro ('gold'), [2] 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).
' to the tooth ' [1]) pasta or rice is cooked to be firm to the bite. [2] [3] [4] The term also extends to firmly-cooked vegetables. [5] In contemporary Italian cooking, it is considered to be the ideal consistency for pasta and involves a brief cooking time. [6] [7] Molto al dente is the Italian term for slightly undercooked pasta. [2] [8]