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Senatore Cappelli durum wheat pici – Mulino Val d’Orcia

-Pici are a typical pasta format from southern Tuscany similar to spaghetti but wider, encapsulating the smell and flavor of the Sienese countryside. Pici, the ancestor of spaghetti, has deep roots in history and has been a popular food since Etruscan times. Whole wheat semolina pasta made from Senatore Cappelli organic durum wheat. We pursue a different Idea of Pasta, milling Integrale the recognized excellence of Senatore Cappelli Durum Wheat; by bronze drawing the result has peculiar, and unique characteristics: undoubted nutritional ones, thanks also to the slow drying process, but more so those of the pleasure it gives in cooking and eating it. Chocolate-colored and uneven-surfaced and therefore porous, tenacious but not stubbornly textured, though good with everything She likes a seasoning that does not overpower her but complements her, a playful contending for the stage of the palate. CYCLING Average distance between the harvesting field and the mill-drying facility: 6 km. About 30 hours of average drying time at a temperature of about 38°/42°. Storage period: 18 months.