The Mystery of Italy’s Saltless Bread

Jan 17, 2018 748

BY: VITTORIA TRAVERSO

ASK ANYONE FROM CENTRAL ITALY what is distinctive about their local bread and you’re almost certain to hear the same thing: “È senza sale.” Unlike the bread baked elsewhere in the country—and the world, for that matter—“It is without salt.”

But if you go on to ask someone from Tuscany, Umbria, or Marche (three central Italian regions where most towns bake unsalted bread) why that is, you’re not going to hear a universal, accepted answer. 

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SOURCE: https://www.atlasobscura.com/

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