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.
Though, the green color of these sauces comes from different sources than the tomatillo of Mexican salsa verde. They get their green-ness from fresh herbs like parsley and sage. But for us spicy food lovers, when we hear the words âsalsa verdeâ, itâs typically the Mexican version that comes first to mind.