L’Archivio
The Archive
Where the claims come with their documents attached: a law, a label, a newspaper with a date on it.
Documento N.° I The law of the cantuccino, annotated The EU specification for Cantuccini Toscani IGP, read in the original and annotated line by line. Butter is required by law in the protected biscuit; the second bake is merely permitted. The document quietly upends the English-language catechism.
Documento N.° II From ship’s biscuit to Prato Panis biscoctus was a preservation technology before it was a pleasure: Roman rations, Venetian fleet ovens, Lenten austerity, and the nineteenth-century Prato shop where the cookie finally became itself.
In lavorazione
In the works for this shelf: the exhibition record of Antonio Mattei at Paris 1867 and Florence 1861 — held until we have read the primary catalogues with our own eyes — and a press archive of what Italian newspapers and food journals have written about cantucci since the IGP fight of 2016.