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Piadina Romagnola IGP (or Piada Romagnola IGP) is a product of the Romagna tradition made with soft wheat flour, water, fats and salt. The ready-made product is available in two types of different formats: Piadina Romagnola and Piadina Romagnola alla Riminese.
Piadina Romagnola IGP is the symbol of Romagna gastronomy. Its reputation dates back to the fourteenth century, although even Virgil had hinted at something similar in the seventh book of the Aeneid, describing a thin toasted disc. Piadina was born as a humble food; traditionally prepared between one batch of bread and another that were baked once a week.
The consumption of Piadina continued through the centuries until the Middle Age when the inhabitants of Romagna started to use the poorest cereals trying not to get taxed by the nobles and landowners. Piadina had gained so much popularity that in 1371, to protest the absurd taxes, Cardinal Angelico noted that there were “two ‘Piade’” between the taxpayers in the city of Modigliana (Forlì-Cesena) and their collector, the Apostolic Chamber.
Over the centuries, it has gone from a “poor man’s bread”, fast and without the need for leavening, to a widely consumed product. Known in Romagna with the dialectal form piè, it took on its current name thanks to the Italianization of Giovanni Pascoli’s poem La Piada (New Poems), in which the poet defines it as the “bread of humanity”.
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