BARILLA: la PASTA che HA FATTO LA STORIA | Storie di Cibo | PRATTQUELLO

Today's is a story of two funerals, a story of two brothers in conflict and of an immense legacy that can crush you, son, as being your greatest strength. Eating is not just chewing, sometimes studying the shape of macaroni in the laboratory. Thank you for the like. Thanks for the comment. Thanks for the

follow. Thank you for being you and pasta. Pasta that survives a war, another war, and then a sale. Today has stories of food. Pietro Barilla the first. Pietro Barilla the grandfather, because then we have to get to know the grandson later. In short, Pietro Barilla the elder was a good boy. He fell in love for the first time watching his

grandfather knead bread, his face dirty with flour, this white snow that flies everywhere. And Pietro worked in his grandfather's bakery and then in a cousin's bakery, and he continued to grow, work, and grow until he reached 30 years old and said, I want to open my own bakery. We are in 1877 in Parma, a guy full of

willpower. Pietro had many dreams, but all very concrete, fantasies, but in a suit and tie, he had nine brothers, two of them were bakers like him, and like him, they got by. Because being a baker doesn't make all three of you rich. They make bread and pasta and Pietro is happy but not too

much. Meanwhile, he has married Giovanna and together they will have six children and they are an immense joy. But he is missing something, he wants to do more, do better and he invents, he registers the bakery in Giovanna's name and opens another little shop 7 minutes away on foot from there where he can sell

his bread and pasta creations. It's 1982 and Pietro works night and day between the bakery and the shop and his greatest success during this period is that he survives this life because everything else is going badly. The shop declares bankruptcy two years later and Pietro, head down, goes back to closing himself in. In the bakery there is