Wednesday, October 18, 2023

The best bread in Italy is produced in Sicily



The best bread in Italy? It is made in Sicily in a small abandoned village. The bread is kneaded by hand and leavened only with sourdough, it has no chemical additives, but is made only with the highest quality raw materials and at zero km, as it was done in the past. The story between Maurizio's bread and the ghost town of Santa Rita begins in the 1960s, when many began to emigrate. Maurizio's father was one of the few to stay in the village, continuing his activity as a cow breeder. Cattle breeding alone, however, was not enough to support the family, and for this reason Maurizio's mother began to make bread to sell it together with milk and fresh eggs. This is where the beautiful story of Maurizio begins, today known all over the world for his bread made as it was once made and his stubbornness in betting on the uniqueness and value of Sicilian products.

 In an abandoned village where, among the very few inhabitants, there is a young baker. In the province of Caltanissetta there is a small town, Borgo Santa Rita, which over the years has suffered the phenomenon of emigration that has emptied the houses of that human fabric that gives life to things. But Maurizio Spinello's family did not follow the fate of the other inhabitants. In fact, his father, when the depopulation of Borgo Santa Rita began in the sixties, remained in the village, with very few others, and continued to be a cow breeder. But that activity alone was not enough for the family's needs, so his mother began to make bread at home to sell along with milk and eggs. Maurizio continued the bread-making business his mother had started to produce the best bread that could exist.


The bread of the past, we could say that it gives you those ancient aromas and flavors that make you dive into the past where bread and nature is a winning combination. In the "ghost" village, among uninhabited and almost ruined houses, you can smell that scent of bread, of a lit oven, of human warmth. Maurizio produces a delicious organic bread, without resorting to additives, only natural substances. Sourdough, hand dough, local raw materials. And like in fairy tales, this story had a happy ending. Maurizio, today is known all over the world for his bread, a testimony that believing in one's territory and its potential, with so much sacrifice, passion and continuity, pays off in the end. In the village, next to Maurizio's business, there are some agricultural-livestock farms and a business that sells fruit.

Borgo Santa Rita is really an abandoned village, where the only inhabitant is Maurizio, the baker, who among the ruins of the old houses produces his organic bread, with which he also supplies some retailers and some markets.
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