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IRC meeting Belgium 2024

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IRC Meeting Belgien 2024  Click here to see the  pictures https://richemontclub.be/irc-2024-desemcongres/ Aftermovie IRC Belgium 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bAY1yOuEeM From September 14 to 19, 2024, the Richemont Club Belgium hosted this year's IRC meeting - an exclusive event that takes place annually in one of the member ...

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International Meeting of the Richemont Clubs in Luxembourg

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From 1st to 5th September, the Richemont Club Luxembourg hosted the IRC Meeting, an event that takes place every year in one of the member countries of Club Richemont International. This year it took place in beautiful Luxembourg. For four days, participants had the opportunity to discover the architectural, cultural, gastronomic and natural beauti...

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IRC Presidents Meeting in Saillon-les-Bains 2018

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The IRC International Club Meeting was held in Saillon-les-Bains, Switzerland and was a significant event. Richemont Cloud Here some impressions of the event. https://cloud.richemont-fachschule.ch/index.php/s/b9kNJQb8m3Y28td?

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IRC President meeting Belgrade 21.04-23.04.2023

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This year's Presidents' Meeting took place in the beautiful city of Belgrade. The Serbian colleagues, who joined as a new member country in 2019, put together a very exciting and varied programm. In the following pictures you can see some great impressions. Many thanks for this successful organisation. 

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Richemont Sourdough Summit 2019 Review

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The sourdough summit was a great success for the whole industry. You can see the summary and impressions under the following link.  

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IRC President Meeting Brescia

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This year's President's Meeting took place in a very festive setting in Brescia, Italy. The reason was the 25th anniversary of the Richemont Club Italy and the election of the new IRC president for the next 4 terms. In a dignified setting, the previous IRC President Jorge Pastor was thanked and appreciated for his great commitment to the ...

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IRC Meeting 2017 - Bilbao

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The International IRC Meeting 2017 in Bilbao, San Sebastian. This event was organized by the Richemont Club Spain. Our Program Download PDF File Here

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25th Anniversary Richemont Club Spain

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Located on the banks of the Guadalquivir River, Seville is the heir to a rich Arab legacy and its status as a prosperous commercial port with the Americas. The Andalusian capital exudes joy and bustle in each of the streets and squares that make up its historic center, which houses an interesting set of buildings declared World Heritage and neighbo...

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IRC Meeting Croatia 2019

 Just back from an amazing IRC Meeting in Croatia, organized by the charming team of International Richemont Club Croatia - still overwhelmed by the beauty of the landscape and friendliness of the people. Many very interesting visits of modern and engaged bakery facilities, leading domestic producers of pastries and unique confectionery.Apprec...

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Why bread stopped having prominence and why it returns with force

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Welcome to the Richemont Blog. This Blog was born with the purpose of clarifying elementary concepts about bakery and pastry, to transmit and disseminate knowledge based on studies conducted both at the Richemont Fachschule in Lucerne, and local data and knowledge provided by the different Richemont Clubs distributed throughout Europe and South Ame...

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The connection between intolerances and bread

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1. Thank you very much for taking the time to share your knowledge with our readers Mr. Pastor. You have been President of the Richemont International Club for several years and before that you were President of the Richemont Spain Club for many years. How did the relationship with the Richemont School of Lucerne come about? I first heard about Ric...

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What do wine, beer and bread have in common?

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Obviously, all three are foodstuff or drinks and part of any aperitif, lunch or dinner. But what else do they have in common? Have you ever heard of fermented foods? Yes, wine, beer and bread, like cheese or yogurt are fermented foods. In recent years other more exotic foods such as kefir, tempeh, sauerkraut, miso or kombucha tea have been added to...

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Our "second brain" controls our health - the importance of the microbiota

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What is the intestinal microbiota? It is the population of 100 billion bacteria in our digestive system, a figure ten times higher than the number of cells in our body. Until now we knew it as the intestinal microflora. Serotonin, which is related to happiness and good humour, is mostly produced in our intestines. It has been shown that chemicals p...

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Healthy bread, professional training and the relevant European legislation

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We have discussed healthy bread in previous posts on this blog. We talked about the importance of making bread with cultivated sourdough also previously in other posts. We even wanted to believe in the health benefits of fermented foods such as sourdough cultures. All this has brought us to the point of asking ourselves, what do the regulations say...

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How old bread baking techniques can reduce irritable bowel disease

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The University of Hohenheim in Germany has issued a press release stating that there is still hope for patients with irritable bowel syndrome. What is irritable bowel syndrome and what are its symptoms? David Warmflash, M.D., a scientist from Portland, USA, describes this in his article published in ChemMatters:  «Irritable bowel syndrome is a...

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Is it feasible to sell bread online?

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Charles Darwin already said "it is not the strongest species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one that best responds to change." The current situation opens a complicated scenario, especially for the self-employed and small companies. For many it also becomes an opportunity to reorient their business, thus adapting to the new realit...

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Interview with Reto Fries to the development of Richemont

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Thank you, Mr. Fries, for taking the time to answer our questions during these difficult times and to tell us about the Richemont Expertise Centre. We are aware that the technical school was closed in the spring due to the Covid-19 and that it only reopened since June. Perhaps for this reason now is a good timing to talk about the technical college...

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Differences between wheat flour and spelt flour – a scientific study

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We like to share with a summary of the scientific article "High resolution proteomics reveals differences in spelt and wheat flour proteome that represent targets for wheat sensitivity research" published by Muhammad Afzal, Jens Pfannstiel, Julia Zimmermann, Stephan C. Bischoff, Tobias Würschum, C. Friedrich H. Longin on the website www.nature.com/...

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Influence of wheat variety and dough preparation on FODMAP content in breads – a scientific study

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In a previous blog article we have already explained the meaning of the acronym FODMAPs (Fermentable, Oligo, Di, Monosaccharides and Polyols), whose excessive consumption has relevant negative health effects, such as irritable bowel syndrome. If you have not read it, we will be happy to link to the page here. This month we return with more interest...

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Interview with the only sourdough librarian in the world

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We want to end this year with a special post. After more than 12 publications where the elaboration of Healthy Bread with Sourdough has been defended, where different points of view have been shared, always with the support of scientific arguments and paraphrasing great and renowned scientists. Richemont defends and supports bread making with Sourd...

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