Current varieties include durum wheat for pasta and so-called common wheat for bread.

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In 1973 he bought an abandoned monastery on 480 acres of untouched mountaintop land overlooking the Adriatic Sea and planted a crop of organic durum wheat.

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They include some of our most popular fruits and vegetables, such as Ruby Red grapefruit and most of the durum wheat varieties used to make pasta.

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EU's durum wheat (most of it went into pasta).

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It was there that my mother learned to make a traditional couscous the name for tiny beads of durum wheat semolina as well as for the delectable stew they are part of, which can only be described as an entire feast in one course.

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So, for example, primitive wheat breeders crafted durum (hard) wheat for pasta and softer varieties for cakes.

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