
Castelmagno Cheese at SIRIO
March 18th, 2010 admin

[Show as slideshow] Chef Vincenzo Scarmiglia is one of our favorite dudes in food. Castelmagno cheese might be our favorite cheese in the world. When we saw it on Sirio ’s menu, you might say our little fermented-curd-lovin’ heart skipped a beat. (When we saw a wheel of it at Peck in Milan years ago, that’s just what happened.) Turns out this Tuscan chef thinks as much of it as we do. He brought it to Las Vegas as one of the highlights of his selezione di formaggi Italiani . Castelmagno cheese (DOP) is a cow-sheep’s milk blend made high in the foothills of the Piedmont (“foot hills”) area of northwestern Italy. The milk must come from the razza bovina Piemontese . It…
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