Cinque Terra

Blessed are the cheesemakers

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June 22nd 2008
On Wednesday morning we watched Parmigiano Reggiano being made, a process that has gone on daily since 1200. The cheesemaker combines untreated milk from the morning milking with partly skimmed milk delivered the evening before in large copper vats. After adding whey from the previous day along with a natural enzyme, the milk curdles. It is cooked for a few minutes while the cheese solids seper ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more