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Shaped like a top knot, and oozing luscious cream, burrata is a fresh Italian cheese made from mozzarella and cream. Faith Willinger, the American food writer who lives in Florence describes burrata as “halfway between cheese and sex.” You can buy it fresh from Pasesanella at their Marrickville factory in Sydney, which is also open [...]
I’ll never forget the first time I tasted mascarpone, the luscious fresh Italian double-cream cheese made from cow’s milk. It was in the early 1970s at the back of a house in Marrickville, in Sydney’s inner west. An Italian friend of mine had taken me there one Sunday morning to meet his friend, the cheesemaker [...]
I remember the first time I tasted fresh ricotta, the sweet Italian cheese made from re-cooked whey. It was in the early 1970′s at the Paesanella Cheese Factory in Sydney’s western suburbs and was being made at the time by one of Australia’s first fresh cheesemakers Umberto Somma. At that time he was still working [...]
