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Ciabatta was invented in the 1980s
A Verona baker devised the slipper shaped loaf to compete with French bread Ciabatta appeared in 1982, when the Verona miller and baker Arnaldo Cavallari and his team developed a very wet dough for a sandwich bread that could rival the baguette. The soft wheat and high hydration give an open irregular crumb, and the name refers to the loaf's slipper shape. It spread quickly through Italy and abroad. It sits in Mondo's food collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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- A Verona baker devised the slipper shaped loaf to compete with French bread. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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