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Farinata is a signature dish of Italy; we have verified places to eat it in Genoa. Start with where to eat Farinata in Genoa.
Farinata is a thin disc of chickpea flour, water, salt and olive oil baked in a wide shallow pan in a wood oven until crisp at the edges and soft inside, served warm in wedges with black pepper in Genoa.
Chickpeas are widely held to have reached Genoese cooking through the medieval republic's trade with the Arab world. A decree of the Republic regulated the oil used for farinata in the 15th century, and a popular story credits its invention to galley crews who found their chickpea flour and oil soaked in seawater after the Genoese victory over Pisa at Meloria in 1284. It is also baked in Tuscany and in Buenos Aires and Montevideo, where it is called fainá.
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Where to eat Farinata in Genoa: the editor picks
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