Entries by Barbara Elisi

Purple Sweet Potato Super-Soft Rolls

I have been wanting to try purple sweet potatoes since reading about the Okinawa people. In this little Japanese island, there wasn’t a big variety of food and locals mostly ate purple sweet potatoes, complemented with rice and legumes and very little more. They have estimated that animal proteins altogether contributed slightly above 1% of […]

Master Class 28-29 May 2016, Rotterdam

Quick shout out for my friend’s Ralph coming bread masterclass. If you have the chance, don’t miss it, he is a fantastic teacher and is in very good company for this workshop: So here the hard facts… What: Bread Master Class. When: 28th and 29th of May 2016. Teachers: Ralph Nieboer* & Michel Schröder**. Location: […]

Panis Farreus: 100% Einkorn Ring

  The idea of this loaf came to me reading about a traditional ring-shaped bread, the Cucciddatu, which still survives in some areas of Sicily. The cucciddatu is made out of durum wheat but appears to have its origins in a very ancient Roman bread, Panis Farreus, that was indeed based on Farro, as the […]