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I have to give credit to GRANA PADERNO cheese for opening my eyes...
Grana Padano - Wikipedia
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I eat a lot of pasta, and can't eat much cheese, but can get away with Parmesan as it's lower in fat and drier than most other cheeses
So I *always* have grated Parmesan on pasta ( or up until now, what I thought was Parmesan )
well one day I bought a chunk of this Grana Paderno, and it was amazing grated over the Rotini...I mean, REALLY good...way better than the "Parmesan" I had been using, forever.
plus it had that logo burned into it.....what was this cheese???
I went off to WIKI, same link as above
That's where I discovered the rivalry between PARMIGIANO REGGIATA and GRANA PADERNO cheese...and the Law stating those cheeses can only be named thus, if they are actually FROM ITALY, made in those regions. ( kind of like Champagne in France )
Therefore Parmesan I've been eating all my life, was made in North America and branded as "Parmesan", but it wasn't the real thing!!
Well...this set me off on a mission to try some of this REAL PARMESAN. First the Wiki link:
Parmigiano-Reggiano - Wikipedia
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I found a local place that had the authentic, imported from Italy, bigass chunks of the real thing. cut into smaller chunks like the pic above
I grated it over the Fettucine I made that night, and was BLOWN AWAY!!!!
The real deal is SO MUCH BETTER than the CRAP they sell us over here....I cannot believe it.
although Gran Paderno and Parmegiano Reggiano are similar, they are indeed different
They are both really good
I cannot get over the fact that I never knew about this. I mean, I have been buying chunks of what I thought was the real deal...never using that pre-grated Kraft garbage, but what I thought was the real cheese
the real stuff is so good, you can eat it on it's own! and it doesn't smell like someone else's feet!!
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I guess anyone here who is actually Italian is probably laughing at me. But how the hell was I supposed to know?
MUNGICAKE, I AM
As for all the other MUNGICAKES, you owe it to yourself to hunt some of this down. it is that good.
IMO
*edit* but make sure it has that logo/writing burned into the rind. That is the only way to verify it, and it's illegal to copy. There is a lot of the fake stuff out there branded as the real deal, but it doesn't have that rind!!
Grana Padano - Wikipedia
I eat a lot of pasta, and can't eat much cheese, but can get away with Parmesan as it's lower in fat and drier than most other cheeses
So I *always* have grated Parmesan on pasta ( or up until now, what I thought was Parmesan )
well one day I bought a chunk of this Grana Paderno, and it was amazing grated over the Rotini...I mean, REALLY good...way better than the "Parmesan" I had been using, forever.
plus it had that logo burned into it.....what was this cheese???
I went off to WIKI, same link as above
That's where I discovered the rivalry between PARMIGIANO REGGIATA and GRANA PADERNO cheese...and the Law stating those cheeses can only be named thus, if they are actually FROM ITALY, made in those regions. ( kind of like Champagne in France )
Therefore Parmesan I've been eating all my life, was made in North America and branded as "Parmesan", but it wasn't the real thing!!
Well...this set me off on a mission to try some of this REAL PARMESAN. First the Wiki link:
Parmigiano-Reggiano - Wikipedia
I found a local place that had the authentic, imported from Italy, bigass chunks of the real thing. cut into smaller chunks like the pic above
I grated it over the Fettucine I made that night, and was BLOWN AWAY!!!!
The real deal is SO MUCH BETTER than the CRAP they sell us over here....I cannot believe it.
although Gran Paderno and Parmegiano Reggiano are similar, they are indeed different
They are both really good
I cannot get over the fact that I never knew about this. I mean, I have been buying chunks of what I thought was the real deal...never using that pre-grated Kraft garbage, but what I thought was the real cheese
the real stuff is so good, you can eat it on it's own! and it doesn't smell like someone else's feet!!
I guess anyone here who is actually Italian is probably laughing at me. But how the hell was I supposed to know?
MUNGICAKE, I AM
As for all the other MUNGICAKES, you owe it to yourself to hunt some of this down. it is that good.
IMO
*edit* but make sure it has that logo/writing burned into the rind. That is the only way to verify it, and it's illegal to copy. There is a lot of the fake stuff out there branded as the real deal, but it doesn't have that rind!!
