(Capsicum annuum). A customer favorite! This fine Italian pepper was grown each year by Giuseppe and Angella Nardello in their garden in the village of Ruoti, in southern Italy. In 1887 they set sail with their one-year-old daughter, Anna, for a new life in the U.S. They settled in Naugatuck, Connecticut, and in their garden grew this same pepper, which they named for their fourth son, Jimmy. This long, thin-skinned frying pepper dries easily. Its rich taste earned it a place in Slow Foods' Ark of Taste. It grows well in most areas.
