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The Italian Town Where You Can Eat Like a Renaissance Royal for Atlas Obscura

Text by Rebecca Anne Hughes | Photos by Fernanda Rocha


Every morning by 3 a.m., at his shop in the northern city of Ferrara, Italian baker Sergio Perdonati recreates a Renaissance bread. Using a 90-year-old starter (which his father managed to save after the bakery was bombed during World War II), he rolls two lengths of dough, one beneath the palm of each hand, until they begin to curl. He then presses the two pieces together at the middle to form an “X” and pops it on a tray with a dozen others ready for baking.


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