May 22, 2007
Classes were partially interrupted today for a tour of the Buitoni factory in a wonderful follow-up of yesterday's visit to Casa Buitoni. The factory is the second largest Buitoni factory in Italy with around 500 employees, and it is the biggest employer in Sansepolcro. The original factory was originally near the piazza, but it has since moved to its current location further away from the town center. After donning rather snazzy-looking paper jackets and shower-caps, we toured the pasta and bakery sections of the factory. It was so humid in the pasta section! Machines loomed over us and we could barely hear one another in the factory--they mixed the ingredients, formed it into pastas, and cut it into tiny shapes before cooking it, drying it, and packing/shipping it out to the stores. The bakery section was slightly less humid, but every drop of water missed was made up for tenfold by heat. We saw the ingredients mixed, kneaded, cooked, cooled, cut, toasted, packaged, and shipped, all from this one plant--it was amazing!
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the only buitoni stuff that i've been able to find in NC is the fresh pasta, which unfortunately is not made in sansepolcro and does not have a picture of casa buitoni on it :( sadness ... enjoy the beauty and soak it up for me! i wish i were there with you! thanks for the descriptions and detail ... it's better than looking at my own pictures :)
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