The ancient art of making pasta from durum wheat semolina has a very long tradition in Gragnano. The history of pasta on the “magic” hill …
wheat
World cereal production to decline by 1.5 percent in 2015
Early prospects point to a likely decline of 1.5 percent in global cereal production in 2015 from the previous year’s record. Based on the conditions …
Who really invented pasta?
….Chinese? Arab? Italian? The dispute over who really has the right to declare himself “inventor” of pasta is ancient. It all depends on what you mean talking …
About wheat production: cultivation and trade
Wheat production is concentrated in a few countries, even if wheat plant is very robust and can adapt to a quite different environmental conditions. The …
International wheat production statistics
What are the main wheat producing countries in the world? Everybody, once in a lifetime, has wondered it. Generally, we can say that wheat does …
World production of cereals: the main numbers
Wheat: productions stable but inhomogeneous In principle the campaign 2014-15 for wheat has recorded in various areas a not homogeneous production trends. This fact, coupled with …
A grain trade 2000 years before agriculture
The ancient inhabitants of Britain began to consume wheat grown about two thousand years before agriculture came along on the island, importing it from the …
Types of flour
In terms of the parts of the grain (the grass fruit) used in flour—the endosperm or protein/starchy part, the germ or protein/fat/vitamin-rich part, and the bran or fiber part—there are three general types of flour.