Talk to the reference librarian at your public library. She can search your library's online magazine and periodical databases and probably find the article. It will probably be free, but there's a chance you might have to pay a small charge if they can't obtain it from a free database (sometimes they can identify the article, but don't have full-text for that magazine or that year). The main variables will be the particular magazine the article appeared in, and the year of publication.

If they're too busy to do the search for you, ask when you could return that staff would be able to help you.

Even if your public library is quite small and you think they couldn't possibly subscribe to huge periodical databases, many state libraries fund a collection of databases for all the libraries in the state.

Try your library's web site first. It may be that you can access the databases from home (generally by using your library card number -- though it might not work if the card is expired or you have overdue charges). [If you go to the library in person, they probably won't ask for a card number, though more libraries are charging for printing given the current economy; in some cases you can email an article to yourself and avoid printing entirely. Take a recent utility bill in case you need to prove your current address to update your card.]

Some things to think about: About what time period was the magazine printed? What magazine titles do you usually read? Was the equipment called a passapomodoro in the article, or did it use the English term? You might want to write out "passapomodoro" so the librarian who searches for you spells it correctly.

Good luck!

Try this link. It mentions a passapomodoro article in Saveur magazine. It gets you a little closer I hope :)

Good luck.

Pandorae

Here is a link that might be useful: Reference to Saveur magazine article

This issue might be a worth a look. Time frame seems to fit and the picture on the front looks like homemade tomato sauce to me :))

Pandorae

Here is a link that might be useful: SAVEUR #68 AUG/SEPT 2003

Thanks everyone. The library database is a great idea.

pandorae... unfortunately, that isn't the right issue, but thank you.

Is it just that you are looking for a good fresh sauce recipe? If so there are many of them out there and you'll find many different recipes discussed over on the Harvest Forum here.

You might also want to check over on the Cooking Forum at GW - they have an Italian specialty cooking section and recipes from several different professional chefs posted.

Dave

PS: findarticles.com is one of the best sources for tracking down past magazine articles.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=passapomodoro&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&oq=

The same thing as all americans are using. no big deal.

Everybody makes these things for tomatoes. They are discussed in a hundred threads here on Garden Web.

Here is a link that might be useful: passapomodoro pictures

Pandorae! You are a genius! Many thanks. The link to the article that you gave above in turn referenced an old issue of Saveur magazine. I was able to figure out that the article I was recalling appeared in Issue #61. The title is "Tomato Crush."

The point of the article was in part to get the recipe (the other post-ers are right - there are lots recipes on the web). However, the more important reason was the article that went along with the recipe - talking about family traditions in the Old and New world.

Anyhow, thanks to all for the replies.