San Marzano Tomatoes are back in stock!!!!! iDELI is pleased to have access to and provide for you, this benchmark tomato. It's the tomato par excellence. For something as simple as a pizza sauce, using San Marzano tomatoes will elevate the quality of your dish. "These days, I always have at least a half a dozen tins in my pantry. You could say that I've become a bit of a canned tomato snob. I hate getting caught short! If I run out at home, then we go without. Once you've used these, buying just any old tomato from the supermarket is not acceptable........Calvin" San marzano Tomatoes are a key ingredient to making "Vera Pizza Napoletana", true pizza, along with authentic, traditional, Mozzarella di Bufala.

Wikipedia sums up the san marzano description in one - "San Marzano tomatoes, a variety of plum tomatoes, are considered by many chefs to be the best sauce tomatoes in the world. The story goes that the first seed of the San Marzano tomato came to Campania in 1770, as a gift from the Kingdom of Peru to the Kingdom of Naples, and that it was planted in the area that corresponds to the present commune of San Marzano. They come from a small town of the same name near Naples, Italy, and were first grown in volcanic soil in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius. The volcanic soil is believed to act as a filter for water impurities. Compared to the Roma Tomatoes with which most people are familiar, Marzano tomatoes are thinner and pointier in shape. The flesh is much thicker with fewer seeds, and the taste is much stronger, more sweet and less acidic. Many people describe the taste as bittersweet, like high-quality chocolate. Because of their high quality and origins near Naples, San Marzano tomatoes have been designated as the only tomatoes that can be used for Vera Pizza Napoletana (True Neapolitan Pizza)

The name denotes both a point of origin and a variety of tomato. Canned Marzanos grown in Italy in compliance with Italian law will have the EU "DOP" emblem on the label."

The San Marzano DOP (protected designation of origin)is a unique product and is only cultivated in 41 municipalities in the province of Naples, Avellino, Salerno located in the region of Campania as stipulated by the rules of production article 10 of regulation EEC n. 2081 dated July 14 1992