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This page lists more than 1,000 types of Italian cheese but is still incomplete; you can help by expanding it. Pecorino romano. This is an article of Italian cheeses.Italy is the country with the highest variety of cheeses in the world, with over 2,500 traditional varieties, among which are about 500 commercially recognized cheeses [1] and more than 300 kinds of cheese with protected ...
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Mozzarella (English: / ˌ m ɒ t s ə ˈ r ɛ l ə /, Italian: [mottsaˈrɛlla]; Neapolitan: muzzarella, Neapolitan: [muttsaˈrɛllə]) is a semi-soft non-aged cheese prepared using the pasta filata ('stretched-curd') method with origins from southern Italy. It is prepared with cow's milk or buffalo milk, taking the following names:
A platter with cheese and garnishes Cheeses in art: Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels, Clara Peeters, c. 1615. Cheese is a type of dairy product produced in a range of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein. It comprises proteins and fat from milk (usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats or sheep).
Stracciatella cheese is composed of small shreds—hence its name, which in Italian is a diminutive of straccia ('rag' or 'shred'), meaning 'a little shred'. It is a stretched curd fresh cheese, white in colour, and made the whole year round, [2] [3] but is thought to be at its best during the spring and summer months. [2]
Provolone (/ ˌ p r oʊ v ə ˈ l oʊ n eɪ, ˌ p r oʊ v ə ˈ l oʊ n i, ˌ p r oʊ v ə ˈ l oʊ n /, [3] Italian: [provoˈloːne]) is an Italian semi-hard cheese made from cow's milk. It is an aged pasta filata ('stretched-curd') cheese originating in the Campania region, [4] near Vesuvius, where it is still produced in pear, sausage, or cone shapes 10 to 15 cm (4 to 6 in) long.
They have the Italian abbreviation for PDO (DOP) written on the cheese. Prior to 1996 when the PDO system came into operation, many Italian cheeses were regulated under a denominazione di origine (DO) system, which arose out of the 1951 Stresa Conference and was established under the Italian law 125/54.
Parmigiana (/ ˌ p ɑːr m ɪ ˈ dʒ ɑː n ə,-ˈ ʒ ɑː-/, Italian: [parmiˈdʒaːna]), also called parmigiana di melanzane (Italian: [parmiˈdʒaːna di melanˈdzaːne;-ˈtsaːne]), melanzane alla parmigiana (Italian: [melanˈdzaːne;-ˈtsaːne ˌalla parmiˈdʒaːna]) or, in the United States, eggplant parmesan, is an Italian dish made with fried, sliced eggplant layered with Parmesan ...