Gran Farro

Farro, or emmer, is an ancient wheat grain that Romans ate 2,000 years ago and that Tuscans who live around Lucca and the hills of the Garfagnana continue to eat today. The grain comes as a whole berry or crushed into fine pieces and, while both are delicious cooked in this soup, the whole grain is traditional. The people of Lucca buy farro at their gastronomie, delicatessens, or at special seed and grain shops where they find it in bulk. Wherever they get it, Lucchese women c