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The Historic Reason Some Bread In Central Italy Is Unsalted - Tasting Table

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The United States is not the only place to revolt over rising taxes. According to Trips-2-Italy.com, the city of Perugia in Umbria did something similar in 1540 in what history remembers as The Salt War was a conflict in flat-out defiance of papal authority. Essentially, Perugia, though being part of the Papal States — an area of Italy controlled by the Papacy in Rome, per Britannica – was allowed a fair amount of autonomy in terms of trade and taxation. However, Pope Paul III, seeking to end Perugia's independence, astronomically increased the tax on salt. The people of Perugia rose in revolt as a result. Though the rebellious rabble was quickly put down by a massive papal force, it is said that one of the ways in which they defied the Pope was to not use salt to bake bread.

Though this story is popular among locals, there is evidence to suggest that The Salt War was not the origin point of the city's love of unsalted bread. Zachary Nowak explains (via Atlas Obscura) that meticulous records kept by Perugia's Ospedale di Santa Maria della Misericordia show that not a single lira was spent on salt, despite the hospital having its own bakery. Nowak concluded that if residents of Perugia were used to salting bread before the revolt, after defeat, they would have started using it again. Only they didn't, which suggests a broader story. 

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