Pesto is not, as many think, the Italian for ‘paste’. It means to pound, grind or crush, from the Genoese pesta(re), and refers to the method of making the pesto, as we today call the sauce known by that name. Paste, in fact, is impasto.
P. Vergilius Maro (where this write-up belongs.but who am I to clutter the database with excessive nodes?) was born in 70 B.C. in the northern Italian.