Snails – Minardo – Pasta 500 gr

Giorgio Minardo, before he opened the pasta factory, he has been working as an eletronic engineer in Turin.
At the end of the ’90, due to some healthy issues, he changed his lifestyle and he came back in Sicily to realize a family project.
In 2000 he begun to research and he found out that one of the most used variety of grain to make pasta, since 1975, it has been modified with gamma rays, therefore he started the research about sicilian grain varieties cultivated before ’75, very little used because barely productive or profitable.

From this researches, he has been developing the desire to realize a line of pasta made with ancient sicilian grains flour.
The initial phases of this visionary project were surely not without difficulties: first they had to be found farmers willing to dedicate themselves to this type of crop, which back then was thought as barely economically favorable, then they have to found mills which would be open to grind this grains, maintaining them separate, at the end they had to be found pasta factories willing to make this pasta.

In 2007, Giorgio Minardi decided to open a little pasta factory, in Modica, to self produce its own line of pasta. Thanks to these researches, Giorgio Minardo can be considered the pioner of a movement which have brought to the rediscovery of an inestimable heritage of biodiversity such as the varieties of sicilian ancient grains, an history made of passion and bravery, which has given back to humankind some really precious varieties of grain for health and respect for the environment.