Panino con Cacioricotta
Cacioricotta (cheese made like ricotta but from whole milk); versatile, mild.
Cacioricotta (cheese made like ricotta but from whole milk); versatile, mild.
Caciocavallo is a gourd-shaped cheese tied at the neck to hang and age. Hang it over embers and its melting face ropes onto bread: caciocavallo impiccato, a sandwich of a wheel, a fire, and a slice.
Caciocavallo Silano DOP (stretched-curd cheese from the Sila plateau); aged, sharp.
Caciocavallo Podolico is the cheese of a half-wild grey cow that gives ten litres a day for a few spring months: a rare, herb-soaked, long-aged wheel the panino guards rather than dresses.
A panino con burrata is built around a filling that wants to escape: a mozzarella pouch of cream-loosened curd that spills when cut, caught by a roll firm enough to hold it.
Cool Pugliese burrata torn over a roll, salt-deep prosciutto crudo folded against it: a gourmet-counter sandwich whose whole effect lives in the gap between fresh and cured.
Bra DOP (hard or soft versions); named after the town.
Bitto DOP cheese (cow and goat milk, Alpine pastures); aged, complex, rare.
Asiago DOP cheese; fresco (soft, mild) or d'allevo (aged, sharp).
Cheese sandwich; cheese type varies by region.
Gorgonzola with walnuts on bread; classic combination.