Altamura Bread

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“By far the best bread to be had, so good that the wise traveller takes a supply of it for his onward journey.”

That’s what Horace — a famous lyric poet in the Roman empire — wrote in the year 37 BC after tasting the bread of ‘Altamura’, a small town in southern Italy. Their bread baking tradition has survived for more than two thousand years, and still today, the bread there is still considered as one of the best breads anywhere. It is in this village that the Quest for Sourdough began. The Sourdough Librarian, Karl De Smedt, learned that the bread there was made with a combination — and what a combination — of sourdough, durum wheat flour and expert baking knowledge. This is the very first sourdough — yes, No° 1 — in the Sourdough Library, and is passionately taken care of and refreshed with durum flour supplied from the Altamura village.