Here comes the fifth edition of "Three loaves of bread and Italian bakers 2024", the sector guide of Gambero Rosso. The acknowledgments contained in the publication food and wine were disclosed in Rome. Among the new entries, Piedmont improves with two new entries and Abruzzo, Campania, Friuli, Lombardy and Veneto with one. Among the three special mentions Brescia (Lombardy) obtains the special recognition of Bakery of the year with El Forner, Emerging baker is Giulia Busato of Tocio di Noale (Venice), Pane e Territorio goes to the Antica Forneria Molettieri of Naples.
Italian bread and bakers
“With the guidance, the trend that emerges - the editors of the publication claim - is related to new arrivals of extremely talented young people; most of them are women. A tangible sign - they add - of how much the gold of blond wheat is truly an ever more successful choice for the generations of all time and for the new ones”. Gambero Rosso with the new edition recalls that “bread is gold” and emphasizes that it is "true root of human nutrition, metaphor at the heart of many idioms and famous aphorisms”.
It is also underlined that "bread, together with milk, is one of the most wasted foods in our world, despite its majestic multi-millennial history". “Massimo Bottura – is written in the preface of the new one Guide to Bread and Bakers of Italy 2024 – he says it all with the dessert that closes his Francescana's 2023 tasting menu, which is precisely called 'Il Pane è oro'. An invitation not to waste and to use one's creativity, shaping a better future in which ethics and aesthetics are one. Thus placing environmental, economic sustainability and the well-being of those who work with passion, culture and profound respect in this sacred world at the center".
