Italian nouns are designated as masculine or feminine. For example, vicinanza (neighborhood) is a feminine word, and villaggio (village) is a masculine word. Generally, nouns ending in !a are feminine, nouns ending !e may be either masculine or feminine, and nouns ending in !o are masculine.
Sowing the Seeds. According to family tradition, TABASCO Â® brand Original Red Sauce was created in the mid to late 1860s by Edmund McIlhenny. A food lover and avid gardener, McIlhenny was given seeds of Capsicum frutescens peppers that had come from Mexico or Central America.
How It's Made: Tabasco Sauce. I'll admit, I don't often think about the labor involved in making the food I eat. This morning I dribbled hot sauce on my eggs, and had no idea that the sauce itself took over three years to make. Fortunately, the TV show How It's Made has a five-minute segment detailing the incredible effort put into each batch of Tabasco sauce.