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.
By the early 18th century, the table sauce had made it to the Malay states where it was discovered by English explorers. The Indonesian-Malay word for the sauce was kecap (pronounced kay-chap). That word evolved into the English word ketchup. English settlers took ketchup with them to the American colonies.