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1947, The New Yorker, volume 23, page 21:After a prolonged session with a cookbook, she selected two or three recipes she considered promising, went to her grocer’s, and read off her list of ingredients: a quarter pound of white seedless grapes, three oranges, two tart apples, three cloves, the breast of a chicken, a can of pigs’ feet, a spring onion, a zucchino, three leeks, and a half pint of dried black-eyed peas. The grocer paled as he listened. “Lady,” he said, “what are you making—a painting?”
1962, Monthly Bulletin of the Ministry of Health and Public Health Laboratory Service, page 188:Two members of another family became ill after eating a zucchino—a marrow-like plant grown in their garden; a bitter ether-soluble substance was extracted from a sample of the vegetable (Frizelle 1961).
1986, Keats-Shelley Review, page 87:A zucchino is a small marrow, but there can be no connection with Shelley’s ‘The Zucca’, which was not drafted until 1821.
1997 May 12, Andrew Willett, “Re: Cauldrons?”, in rec.food.historic (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:A marrow is a larger version of a zucchino/courgette ,green skinned with pale flesh-if you leave the zucchini on the plant rather than cutting them at 6" or so as normal you will get a marrow, though marrows are better grown from a proper marrow variety.
1998, Howard Jacobson, No More Mister Nice Guy, →ISBN, page 134:It was their garden in Dulwich, but the light was Italian. In the dream, Frank felt Italian himself. He was back in a mobster shirt, having Italian thoughts, sucking in the light as though he were an Italian vegetable, a melanzana or a zucchino, absorbing what was rightfully his.
1999 February 28, Nina Baltes, “Re: UK views on GM foods and unplanned body modifications”, in rec.arts.bodyart (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:>Fancy a GM tomato? / As a matter of fact, yes! I'd much rather have a decent tasting tomato than the watery crap that you can get here. / The organically grown tomatoes don't necessarily taste better (my experience), and I can't grow my own. / The GM tomato can be harvested ripe because the cell walls do not degrade so fast. / Remember, they knocked something out, they didn't add anything! / So tell me, what is the difference between this and knocking out the green color out of a zucchino by conventional breeding?
1998 March 9, Kyle & Elisabetta, “Re: ristoranti”, in it.hobby.cucina (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:The meal began with marinated swordfish on salad, followed by delicately prepared vegetables fried in / tempura batter, steamed rana pescatrice with a zucchino in a green sauce, and scampi with tomato mayonnaise.
2000 December 20, Peter Moylan, “Re: Potatoe Pie Recipe”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:Meanwhile, go to the refrigerator and see what's there. Typically I'll add a diced carrot, a zucchino, a quarter of red capsicum and a quarter of green capsicum, one or two button squash, a stick of celery, a few mushrooms, and perhaps one or two other things that I've forgotten for the moment; but it all depends on what you have on hand.
2002 November 4, Peter J Ross, “Re: Bukakke Linux not too much fun---------->>>>>>> :(”, in soc.men (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:>>At least they didn't do anything weird with a potato. / > / >Or a turnip. / Or a zucchino.
2003 July 1, Mary Shafer, “Re: where's everybody from?”, in rec.food.preserving (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:I loath zucchini. I've never met a zucchino I liked. And I"ve met a lot. Oh, well. I don't like cooked green bell peppers, either.
2007 September 28, Dorothy J Heydt, “Re: why space opera won't fly (long)”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:>The OED isn't particularly helpful: the earliest citation / >for <courgette> is from 1931, for <zucchini> from 1929. / What's the date on <vegetable marrow>? Which is what a zucchino grows into, if you turn your back on it?
2007 October 11, Dorothy J Heydt, “Re: Food revisited”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:A while back, if I remember correctly, we were discussing zucchini, and I mentioned occasionally cooking one zucchino for my dinner. There were some questions as to whether that was really the proper singular.
2008 October 11, Wayne Boatwright, “Re: Soups On!!!!”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:Artusi's Minestrone (variation) / […] / 1 tablespoon fresh rosemary, finely minced / A zucchino and a potato, diced / 1/2 cup of minced, seeded, and peeled sun-ripened or canned plum tomatoes
2015 June 18, Will Parsons, “Re: the singular of "biscotti"”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:> What about "zucchini"? / Usually one is served "zucchini" as a side dish, or as a component of some other dish, but one is seldom served a single "zucchino", so the issue is not likely to arise.
Noun: "German-speaking Swiss"
2013 May 22, “Zucchini si diventa”, in maternage mum:L'idea dello “zucchino” che abbiamo noi ticinesi è ovviamente un bel po' stereotipata, cose tipo sandali con le calze per darvi un'idea.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)