Something Is Burning in the Kitchen—Intentionally

Anything scorched in your kitchen is usually a bad thing—unless the char shows up on purpose, like when you are using grano arso, Italian burnt grain flour. Up until the late 1800s, peasants in Puglia used to burn the six to 12 inches of wheat that remained after harvesting, and fold the blackened ash back into harvested milled wheat to use in making orecchiette and...