Hamilton Spectator (Ontario, Canada)
July 12, 2005 Tuesday Final Edition

Grain of salt

by Sara Perks

Food facts and fun stuff

The cantaloupe was named after the commune Cantalupo in Sabina, near
Tivoli, Italy, a summer residence of the popes.

It was first cultivated there in about 1700, brought from Armenia.
The melon we know as cantaloupe in North America is a variety of the
muskmelon that Columbus is said to have brought on his second voyage,
in 1494.