Caciocavallo

A stretched-curd cheese made from sheep or cow milk. It is grown throughout southern Italy, especially in the Apennine Mountains and the Gargano peninsula.

The Italian name for the cheese caciocavallo literally means "horse cheese," and it is widely assumed that the name comes from the fact that two cheese forms are always bound together with rope and then left to mature. Hippocrates first referenced a type of caciocavallo circa 500 BC, emphasizing the "Greeks' cleverness in making cheese"