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 This saying might appear to be an overstatement,
but actually if you consider that man draws his vital energy
from food, both for his physical and mental needs then it
doesn’t seem such an exaggeration at all.
Just as a car fuelled with dirty petrol will
sooner or later develop problems, so will a body fed on “non
natural” foods.
Chemical fertilisers, preservatives, food
additives, all settle on our body and cause damage that is
difficult to evaluate; at a mental level we’ll never fully
gauge the importance of interpersonal relationships,
friendship, love, if we eat non natural food; at a spiritual
level we will never understand the spirituality and mystery
concealed in a grain of wheat, its enormous energy, if we
don’t restore a certain sacredness to food.
Our body no longer perceives simple flavours.
Our everyday food doesn’t even have a hint of natural
flavour in it . We believe that we will only succeed in making
future generations understand the importance of loving and
respecting Mother Earth if we can get them to savour and
appreciate food in its essence and its simplicity.
Using this as our starting point, at
Sottolestelle, we strive to produce foods in the healthiest,
most natural way possible, with a reverential respect for
Mother Earth, and favouring raw materials which are either
produced on our farm or purchased from reliable suppliers. In our workshops we almost
exclusively use Spelt, Kamut®, Amaranth, small amounts of Rye,
and wheat.
We do not use type “00” flours; we only use
stone-milled or type “1” flours. We do not use white sugar
in our sweet lines; we sweeten our products with corn malt,
rice malt or apple juice. We do not use brewer’s yeast in
our baked products; we only use sourdough or natural yeast .
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