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BREAD SHOPS AND BAKERIES
This small bread shop in the center of Gassino was renovated recently but the three
steps that give it its name have stayed (scalini means steps in Italian). In the adjoin-
ing bakery workshop Ignazio Mudu has specialized in the production of quality grissini:
the types most in demand are fi ne, classic and fl avored rubatà, while the new specialties
we recommend are milk and plain chocolate grissini and the fl atter stirati, baked with
corn and sunfl ower fl our. The bread is also good but grissini are the specialty, so much so
that on the third Sunday in May the village of Gassino dedicates a festival to them, which
commences with their ritual baking in the old communal oven. Ignazio is one of the brains
behind the event during which he describes to the public the refi ned production technique
behind the grissini he sells in his shop every day.
Closed Sunday and Wednesday afternoon.
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