pomodoro
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Italian Cooking. an Italian variety of tomato that is shaped like an elongated pear and was originally yellowish in color.
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Italian Cooking. a plain pasta sauce made with this variety of tomato.
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Business. in the Pomodoro technique, a unit or block of focused work lasting 20 to 25 minutes, followed by a five-minute break during which distractions can be dealt with: the technique provides for a longer break after several of these blocks of work.
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I whipped up some orecchiette al pomodoro, using grano arso pasta the color of concrete, in my guest apartment in under 20 minutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025
We would get the pomodoro and make sure that it’s not too spicy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2025
Williams calls the sauce pomodoro in her cookbook because she makes it with canned Italian tomatoes.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2022
The plumped, chopped porcinis go in next along with parsley stems, bay leaves and a few ladlefuls each of pomodoro sauce and mushroom stock, which the restaurant cyclically fortifies with mushroom stems and trimmings.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2021
Enjoy with a rib-eye alongside linguine in a pomodoro sauce.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 7, 2021
XJW: One thing you guys taught me, which I wouldn’t have learned outside of this, was when Jean got her page proofs back, you were actually having fun doing your page proofs at pomodoros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2025
AF: I think the thing that made me realize how much fun pomodoros felt like is when I had to really hide to finish the book.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2025
And we met up so much outside of doing pomodoros too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2025
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