breadstick
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Breadsticks, also known as grissini (: grissino; Piedmontese: , ) or '''''', are generally pencil-sized sticks of crisp, dry baked bread that originated in the Italian city of Turin, Piedmont.
Key facts
- Food.name
- Breadstick
- Food.image
- 2016 1129 Turin Grissini.jpg
- Food.image_size
- 250px
- Food.caption
- Grissini in a restaurant in Turin, Italy
- Food.alternate_name
- Grissini,
- Food.country
- Italy
- Food.region
- Turin, Piedmont
- Food.creator
- Antonio Brunero (according to traditions)
- Food.type
- Bread
- Food.main_ingredient
- Flour, water, yeast
via Wikipedia infobox
Nutrition · Open Food Facts
Typical values per 100 g · averaged across 365 products
- Energy
- 439 kcal
- Fat
- 15.1 g
- — of which saturates
- 3.6 g
- Carbohydrates
- 62.6 g
- — of which sugars
- 3.5 g
- Fibre
- 5 g
- Protein
- 12.2 g
- Salt
- 1.79 g
via Open Food Facts · ODbL
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Encyclopedic overview
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Breadsticks, also known as grissini (: grissino; Piedmontese: , ) or '''''', are generally pencil-sized sticks of crisp, dry baked bread that originated in the Italian city of Turin, Piedmont.
==History== It is believed that the breadstick originated in 1643, when a Florentine abbot described a long-shaped and "bone-thin" bread being made in Lanzo Torinese, a town outside of Turin. Tradition states, however, that it originated in the region of Piedmont in the 17th century, invented by a baker called Antonio Brunero, from Turin. It was a food that was intended to be easier to digest for the Duke Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, who had digestive problems in his childhood.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “breadstick” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.