Antica Collection - Hourani Whole Wheat Ancient Grain Pastas
This might be the coolest pasta we make, and frankly, is the closest you will ever come to being Indiana Jones. Technically whole wheat pastas, The Antica Collection is a line of pastas we make highlighting some of the only locally grown and milled flour here in the immediate NorCal area. The Antica Line is made with 70% local Hourani Durum Wheat, an ancient grain originating in the Fertile Crescent Middle East, which was once thought to be extinct. With no record of the grain found after 73 AD, archeologists were shocked to find the cultivar of such a historic and important grain to civilization in a military fort they were excavating in 1960 in the Israeli dessert. After decades in the apocalypse seed banks in the North Pole, the folks at Honoré Farm & Mill, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving wheat and grain varietals, were able to get their hands on some and are thought today to be one of only a very small handful of growers of Hourani in the entire world. Honoré Farm & Mill has this Hourani grown for them with their contract farmer, Full Belly Farm in Guinda, California, and it is then stone-milled for them in Sabastapol California. The grain, which has a nutty and toasted graham cracker flavor to us, is certified organic and certified regenerative.
Pastas can be stored for up to 12 months from manufacture. This pasta is vegan friendly but is not gluten-free.
Ingredients: Honoré Farm and Mill Hourani Flour, Organic Semolina Flour
This might be the coolest pasta we make, and frankly, is the closest you will ever come to being Indiana Jones. Technically whole wheat pastas, The Antica Collection is a line of pastas we make highlighting some of the only locally grown and milled flour here in the immediate NorCal area. The Antica Line is made with 70% local Hourani Durum Wheat, an ancient grain originating in the Fertile Crescent Middle East, which was once thought to be extinct. With no record of the grain found after 73 AD, archeologists were shocked to find the cultivar of such a historic and important grain to civilization in a military fort they were excavating in 1960 in the Israeli dessert. After decades in the apocalypse seed banks in the North Pole, the folks at Honoré Farm & Mill, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving wheat and grain varietals, were able to get their hands on some and are thought today to be one of only a very small handful of growers of Hourani in the entire world. Honoré Farm & Mill has this Hourani grown for them with their contract farmer, Full Belly Farm in Guinda, California, and it is then stone-milled for them in Sabastapol California. The grain, which has a nutty and toasted graham cracker flavor to us, is certified organic and certified regenerative.
Pastas can be stored for up to 12 months from manufacture. This pasta is vegan friendly but is not gluten-free.
Ingredients: Honoré Farm and Mill Hourani Flour, Organic Semolina Flour
This might be the coolest pasta we make, and frankly, is the closest you will ever come to being Indiana Jones. Technically whole wheat pastas, The Antica Collection is a line of pastas we make highlighting some of the only locally grown and milled flour here in the immediate NorCal area. The Antica Line is made with 70% local Hourani Durum Wheat, an ancient grain originating in the Fertile Crescent Middle East, which was once thought to be extinct. With no record of the grain found after 73 AD, archeologists were shocked to find the cultivar of such a historic and important grain to civilization in a military fort they were excavating in 1960 in the Israeli dessert. After decades in the apocalypse seed banks in the North Pole, the folks at Honoré Farm & Mill, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving wheat and grain varietals, were able to get their hands on some and are thought today to be one of only a very small handful of growers of Hourani in the entire world. Honoré Farm & Mill has this Hourani grown for them with their contract farmer, Full Belly Farm in Guinda, California, and it is then stone-milled for them in Sabastapol California. The grain, which has a nutty and toasted graham cracker flavor to us, is certified organic and certified regenerative.
Pastas can be stored for up to 12 months from manufacture. This pasta is vegan friendly but is not gluten-free.
Ingredients: Honoré Farm and Mill Hourani Flour, Organic Semolina Flour
Grano Arso Pastas:
Grano Arso originates in and around the Puglia region of Italy. After harvest, farmers would torch the wheat fields, burning the dried chaff and any cast-off grain still in the field to nourish the earth when tilled under. Between torching the field and tilling it back into the ground, the poorest villagers would come and gather as much of the torched or burnt grain that they could, grinding it into a flour referred to as “farina grano arso”.
To make our Grano Arso pastas, we use 60% organic semolina and 40% organic semolina that has been roasted in the oven to a deep chestnut brown. This develops of depth of flavor reminiscent of toasted popcorn, grilled bread, and almonds. This aroma fills the kitchen both as we roast the flour and extrude the pasta. It’s safe to say that this pasta, traditionally the food of the poorest of the poor, has us drooling and exalting it as the jewel of our current lineup.
