 Durum Wheat in Tuscany?
On Jul 25, 3:47 am, qquito <qqu...@m> wrote:
> Hello, Everyone:
>
> Early this month (July 2007)), I traveled to Tuscany (Toscana), Italy.
> I definitely love the Tuscan landscapes, though I only saw them
> through the windows of trains and buses on the way to Florence and
> Siena.
>
> There are fields that have been harvested with only giant bales of
> straw left behind. They look like wheat fields. I am wondering if this
> wheat is the "durum wheat" used to produce pasta. Is this the only
> type of wheat that is grown in Tuscany?
>
> Thanks for reading and replying!
>
> --Roland
Hi,
sure, in Tuscany but also in many other places in Italy you can see
plenty
of cereals fields.
Not only wheat but barley, oats and other cereals are common too.
Usually the beginning of June is the harvest time where wheat/cereals
are picked up and the straw left on the field.
Straw are collected in bales and then used as fodder while from wheat
(or from the other kind of cereals you can find in italy) flour is
made.
The typical use of flour is to make bread, pasta, and other stuff you
can do with flour like pizza, cakes, etc.
Bye
A.C.
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