Our mission
Our mission is to give chickpeas the spotlight they deserve by creating delicious foods that are naturally plant-based and gluten-free, made with simple ingredients and inspired by the food and flavours we love.
We're starting with farinata and crackers, but our ambition goes further: to reimagine what chickpea-based food can be and make it part of everyday eating.
Because the best food shouldn't feel like a compromise. It should be something everyone at the table reaches for.
The chickpowa story
Chickpowa was born from a simple idea: food should bring everyone together around the same table.
I've always loved hosting dinner parties, but over the years I found myself cooking for more and more different dietary needs: vegans, vegetarians, gluten-free friends, health-conscious friends, and people who simply wanted something delicious. Creating a menu that made everyone happy without cooking five different meals became a challenge.
Then I made farinata. Simple, naturally plant-based and gluten-free, made from chickpea flour, water, extra virgin olive oil and salt. Everyone could eat it. More importantly, everyone genuinely enjoyed it.
And that brought me back to where my love for farinata began.
I'm originally from Piedmont, in northern Italy, but I spent many of my childhood summers in Liguria, a region whose food I've always loved, from focaccia and pesto to, of course, farinata.
Years later, living in the UK, I realised something: a food that had always felt so familiar to me was almost unknown here. At the same time, I saw chickpea flour as an ingredient with so much more potential. Nutritious, naturally versatile and rooted in Mediterranean cooking, yet rarely the star of the show.
That's where Chickpowa began.
And farinata was only the beginning. I wanted to explore what else the humble chickpea could become, which led to our chickpea crackers, crunchy, savoury crackers made with simple ingredients and designed for everyday snacking.
While our farinata brings a piece of Italian tradition to the table, our crackers take the same philosophy and turn it into something you can enjoy anywhere, at your desk, on the go, with dips, on a sharing board, or straight from the bag.
Different products, same little powerhouse at their heart: the chickpea.
