BLE DUR, SEMOULE ET FANTAISIE (Hard wheat, semolina and fancy)

From Olympus to the present day, pasta has often been the stuff of tales and legends, and the stuff of history. Even today, their role in modern life deserves to be highlighted, particularly the complex organisation that, from the harvest in Algeria, transports durum wheat to silos in France and Africa before modern factories clean, … Continued

LE BLE LE PLUS DUR (The hardest wheat)

The world is divided into two groups: those who eat wheat and those who eat rice. It was in the land of rice that Marco Polo discovered the recipe for pasta. It’s not enough to use wheat flour to make pasta, you need a certain kind of wheat: durum wheat. Economists say that durum wheat … Continued