We gave Italians the salsa! 😏 🇮🇹 #didyouknow #latino #mexican #italian #pizza #pasta #historybuff Can you imagine pasta without tomato sauce? Or pizza? Neither could we — until now. It turns out that while the tomato is one of the most widely used fruits in international cuisine, it was domesticated by Mesoamerican peoples 2,600 years ago. Simply put, without the Mexican tomato, famous cuisines like Italian would be very different today.