Bread

Bread is an essential element of every meal in Sardinia – it’s always on the table, often even between meals for a snack. When I first arrived in Australia, I couldn’t believe that bread wasn’t served at every meal; we’d be invited to friends’ homes for dinner and I couldn’t eat if there wasn’t any bread on the table. Sardinia was considered a ‘bread basket’ for the Phoenicians and Romans because of the amount of grain it produced, so it’s natural that bread has long been a staple of the Sardinian diet. Sardinian bread flour is called farina salda (which means ‘Sardinian flour’ in dialect): an unrefined flour, it’s sometimes mixed with plain flour for making bread.