Mulino Marino: the Italian flour used by the roman pizza and bread making master Gabriele Bonci has now joined the OIP catalogue! We’re glad to introduce and offer the flour of a craft family run mill still nowadays, which proposes certified stone milled organic flours from 100% certified Italian wheat and cereals, in order to protect biodiversity, quality, farmer knowledge and the respect for the territory. The Mulino Marino leitmotiv is particularly inspiring: “we produce colors, not works of art”, therefore high quality raw materials to allow you to realize at best your work of art as bread, pizza, cackes, biscuits directly at home. One of the Mulino Marino flours true added values is due is due to the handed down art by the Grandfather Felice Marino from 1956, that is to say the manual hammering of the natural stones dedicated to the milling, which is still nowadays hand made. This passage allows the grain to maintain the best oligoelements, fibers and vitamins alive and sketching out the fittest milling according to cereal not standardizing it.

Bread, if cooked following few and good practices of bread-making, is one of the most satisfying food in all its simplicity. It is fundamental for leavening to take the necessary time for being completed (and not creating a sensation of bloating), in this case it is suggested the starter, which makes the bread more easy to digest due to the activation od enzymatic processes that favorite a pre-digestion. The attention should be focused on the choice of the raw materials too, therefore flour first. Our suggestion is using not to refined flours, obtained through stone milling , a process that, differently for the industrial milling made using mechanic steel rolls, maintains the temperature constant preserving the vitamins and mineral salts content. The ancient wheat flours as Tumminia, Maiorca e Perciasacchi made by our trusted Sicilian producers AdamoBio and Azienda Agricola La Fastuchera guarantee the stone milling and they’re ideal for a rustic bread with a great aromatic structure.

Is it necessary to give up all carbohydrates to have a healthy diet? No, you simply have to choose high quality raw materials, from the pasta you buy to the raw flours, containing the right amount of nourishment and not too refined ad the 00. In this way, eating a home made pizza or bread will be a satisfaction not only for your palate, but your body too will thank you. The best way to approach this virtuous circle is know and select craft mills like Fastuchera Azienda Agricola, choosing for example producers of ancient wheat as Russello, Tumminia, Maiorca, from the moment that these last ones are almost all stone milled and low refined, both the characteristic are necessary to have an high quality carbohydrate.

Homemade bread is something that, as other forms of art, is a channel for creativity, expressivity and enriches the knowledges. Moreover it gives us the certainty of eating an healthy product, which is fundamental thing when we talk about everyday food, differently from what normally happens in the most part of the bread, where the amount of yeast is too high, the flour used is too refined and sometimes chemical additives are present too. The first step for an high quality bread is the selection of the raw materials, flour first privileging the raw ones. We’ve invested our time and resources in the promotion of the ancient wheats, endowed with unique organoleptic and taste properties, as we’ve observed after many years of experiments with home made pizza and bread, and the result have been incredibly good. Using Tumminia, Russulidda Durum Wheat Semolina Sicilian biologic stone ground - Fastuchera Farm or Minorca ( Sicilian ancient durum wheat varieties), not only earning in aromatic richness and taste, but our body too will thank us, from the moment that lab analysis have revealed that flours like these bring many different benefits that go from the cardiovascular system ( thanks to lignin) to the ease to digest, moreover discouraging the rise of alimentary intolerances.

The ravioli, one word and an entire world to discover, the origins are uncertain, the interpretations many and different from region to region. Today, talking about tortelli and casoncelli, we are in the province of Brescia, precisely in Gottolengo, a small town historically renowned for the production of this specialty. Right there Tradizioni Padane has planted its roots, a company born from the passion, the knowledge and the research that are handed down from one generation to another. A manual skill that still nowadays, despite the technologic progress, is still at the base of the company production. An artisanal pasta endowed with an add value not only due to the dexterity, but also thanks to the quality of the raw materials both concerning the flours which compose the dough and the many different stuffings from the classic Handmade thin Casoncelli Bresciani - Tradizioni Padane (bread and cheese), Handmade fine Tortellini di Gottolengo - Tradizioni Padane, Handmade fine Casoncelli with ricotta and spinach filling - Tradizioni Padane, Handmade small Tortelli with pumpkin filling - Tradizioni Padane, Tortelli with sea bass tomato filling - Tradizioni Padane and many others.

Lately pasta has been deleted from many tables with the rise of some low carb diets, but are these ones completely safe? According to the research conduced by the Umberto Veronesi foundation the answer is negative. Indeed the energies brought by the carbohydrates contained in the pasta amid are fundamental and irreplaceable for our organism. The lack of these substances, on the long term, can lead to cardiovascular risks or damages to liver and kidneys. So it is very important for our health to consume the right quantity of pasta, choosing carefully products made up of high quality flours as Penne - Pasta Bossolasco, whose wheats are cultivated by the company itself under constant and strict quality controls.

More and more people are coming back to dedicate themselves to the home made production of bread, focaccia and pizza. We of OIP want to help you to reach the best possible result, both on the taste and in the genuineness of the final product. The flours that can be find on the supermarket shelves aren’t always good quality raw materials, so they alter the tastes and the organoleptic qualities of bakery products in a negative way. Within our catalogue you will be able to find different kind of flours, from the most common varieties to the ones derived from ancient wheats. All of them rigorously Made in Italy all over the production processes: from the wheat cultivation without dangerous chemical fertilizers, to the stone milling. Why using Italian flour? The flour leader countries producers (Canada, Rumania), due to the lack of sun and warm needed for the most part of the year, are obliged to dry the wheat using the glyphosate, an herbicide that avoid the wheat to go bad within few days, but it surely hasn’t a good effect on health, so that it is under observation as a possible cancerous substance. In Italy, on the contrary, particularly in the Southern regions, is endowed with a warmer and sunny weather, so the producers are able to dry wheat naturally under the sunbeams. To give your dough an unique aroma try the flours by Fastuchera Agricultural Company, a small company that invest in the production of flours deriving from Sicilian ancient wheats, towards a eco sustainable agriculture protecting the biodiversity and the genuineness of the final product. Maiorca Flour Soft wheat Bio Molita in Pietra - Fastuchera Farm, Russulidda Durum Wheat Semolina Sicilian biologic stone ground - Fastuchera Farm, Tumminia Biologic Semiwhole Flour Stone Milled - Az. Agricola Fastuchera.

Some scientific studies have highlight that the consumption of ancient flours like Tumminia can help to contrast the rise of alimentary intolerances because, differently from the more spread white flour, they are few processed and modified.