Ancient wheat khorasan Graziella Ra pasta
A feminine wheat for Girolomoni organic pasta
Triticum turgidum turanicum
Grown in the regions of Marche and Umbria, involving in particular numerous farms in the vicinity of the pasta factory and the mill, a pure line of ancient Khorosan wheat, grown in the Mediterranean Basin in the past.
The recovery of this line of Khorasan wheat (known as Turanic wheat) is the result of intensive work, starting from the seed. We started with a population of lines and then selected a pure one, which we called ‘Graziella Ra’.
It is named after a girl, Graziella Fanti, the daughter of the man who brought us the first sack of wheat.
She was 17 years old when she was killed by the Nazis; she was carrying a basket of laundry, which they thought she was using to hide food for the partisans. The second part of the name “RA” is a tribute to the Sun in ancient Egypt, the element that recharges the earth with light and heat that is essential to our life and to our wheat.
Graziella Ra – Khorasan is a so-called ‘ancient wheat’ that exhibits two very common characteristics: the height of the ear in the field and low gluten levels in the pasta, indicating a different protein composition; the gluten is present but differs from that of classic durum wheat.
On the plate, however, it retains good bite and firmness.
For this pasta, we have chosen a semi-wholemeal recipe to provide more fibre, minerals and vitamins than ‘white’ or refined pasta.
From a kilo sack at the end of the 1970s, we managed to grow about 277 tons in 2025!
There is a perfect Girolomoni pasta for every recipe.
Our organic pasta supply chain
A 100% organic pasta factory, from field to table.
Organically grown wheat, gently ground in our Mill. The semolina is immediately processed – slowly – in our adjacent Pasta factory, in the hills of the Marche, where it becomes the Girolomoni pasta that we export all over the world.