Aurora Zancanaro

About

Aurora Zancanaro is a baker. Her background as a chemist, allows her to be 100% master of the principles of natural bread making. After a degree in chemistry and a few years as a researcher, she followed her secret love for bread-making.

After attending many courses and several experiences in laboratories, bakeries, mills, on November 30th 2017, Aurora opened LePolveri, a 50 square meters shop, a small open-plan laboratory near the Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio in Milan. From 2023 Le Polveri doubles and opens the daytime bakery in Via Vespri Siciliani, also in Milan.

Projects

Atanor

Object born by the need to enhance the sourdough refreshment phase as a key moment in the preparation of the bread dough.

Shop

Partnership

Atanor was born from the collaboration between Sara Bologna and Aurora Zancanaro, two contemporary alchemists. The first one is a designer who moves between symbols and signs to give life to objects imbued with magic and narratives; the second one, began her career as a chemist but then decided to dedicate herself to the art of bread, transforming the simplest elements of the earth – water and flour – into masterpieces to eat every day. Her bakery LePolveri is a laboratory in continuous fermentation. The team of alchemists is completed by Massimo from Soffieria Remark, who has refined the borosilicate glass processing technique.

From this meeting a project was born for the care of sourdough, an element we can define as matrix of life or, better, pure alchemy.

The experience with Eleit

I decided to join the Eleit family for the opportunity to help explain the magic of sourdough, bringing it into people’s everyday life, creating a moment of rituality mixed with technique.

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