Caciocavallo Silano - DOP (Whole)
Caciocavallo Silano is on of the most famous cheeses of Southern Italy, in particular of the Sila, a wide Mountain land in Calabria, where it is produced.
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$85.00
Product Summary
Caciocavallo Silano is considered a very important cheese for the Italian gastronomy. Its production is so old as to be mentioned by Hippocrates, a Greek physician and philosopher, who lived between 460 and 370 BC. in one of his many books dedicated to the art and the cooking of foods, he speaks for the first time about ""cacio"". This cheese were ably produced by Greeks and Romans, that became important for this fact. After Hippocrates, also Pliny - in one of his treatises dedicated to cheese - described and exalted the unique features of ""butirro"", an ancestor of the modern caciocavallo, defining it ""very delicate food"".
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- Weight : 4.2 lb
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