A Loaf of 3,500-year-old Sourdough

In Search of Gastronomic Treasures in Turin's Egyptian Museum

Last week I was in Italy, working on a series of food-history articles. I spent three days in Turin, an industrial city known as the “Detroit of Italy”; it’s famous for being the place where carmaker Fiat has its factories. It’s not a city many foreign tourists see, which is too bad, because it boasts butter-rich Piemontese cuisine, great vermouth, an a…