The choice of bread is various and appealing. Mostly white bread and, on the left we can see "grissini", the typical Torino bread-sticks.
The question of who invented this delicious bread stick is contested among Biella, Chivasso, Lanzo, and Turin. However, that said, the version that favors the region’s capital states that Carlo Emanuele asked the court baker, Antonio Brunero, to make a well-cooked bread so as to prevent the spread of disease. Thus the court bread maker produced a kind of thin and crispy bread stick called “Ghersino”, the diminutive of the “Ghersa”, which was a long and thin bread. The two most famous grissini variations are the “stirato” (straight) and “rubata” (hand rolled).