What it is
A yellow-orange small tomato of the Naples area, manually cultivated and stored in crates or piennoli.
Origin place card
The source gives province of Napoli rather than a single town, so the page should remain a provincial/ecotype entry.
Verified history
The official page records family-garden use for at least two generations and recent chef rediscovery, especially for fish preparations. Treat this as source-supported tradition/history from Regione Campania — Pomodorino giallo; the current evidence does not independently establish a founder, precise origin date, first attestation, or archival origin beyond that source framing.
Local hypothesis
Its identity seems connected to old household storage and modern culinary colour contrast on fish-based dishes.
Local legend / oral tradition
No legend is documented.
Ingredients
Descrizione del prodotto Pianta a sviluppo indeterminato molto vigorosa, tollerante alle principali malattie del pomodoro, la bacca tondeggiante leggermente schiacciarta ai poli, il colore esterno è giallo aranciato, la polpa di colore rosa salmone.
Method
Cultivate manually with chestnut or maize supports, harvest by hand, and keep in dry airy rooms, in crates or as piennoli until April. Source-supported detail: Descrizione delle metodiche di lavorazione, condizionamento, stagionatura Quelle classiche del pomodoro indeterminato con tutori di castagno o di mais, tutte le fasi di coltivazione, dal trapianto alla raccolta sono manuali.
Ritual / calendar
La varietà viene utilizzata negli orti familiari dell'area di provenienza da almeno due generazioni, con metodiche pressoché invariate.
Why travel for it
This is a colour page for TIFA: the tomato that turns a Naples-region preserve story yellow.
Recreate-it pathway
Produce/provenance page: do not publish invented quantities; recover and test local recipes or preparation variants before final A+ recipe status.
Editorial warning
Keep the geography broad until a more precise local source is found.
Fieldwork questions
Which Naples-area villages still know it by a local name? Does it overlap with piennolo giallo markets?
Photo brief
Yellow-orange fruit, salmon-pink cross-section, piennolo, fish plate.