Gorgonzola ( ; Italian pronunciation: Ã, [? or? on 'dz ?: la] ) is a veined Italian blue cheese, made from cow's milk without kanji. It can be butter or hard, brittle and salty enough, with a "bite" of the blue veins.
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Histori
Gorgonzola has been produced for centuries in Gorgonzola, Milan, acquired a green marine in the 11th century. However, the city's claims about geographical origin are debated by other regions.
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Production
Today, it is mainly produced in the northern Italian regions of Piedmont and Lombardy. Whole beef milk is used, added starter bacteria, along with spores from the Penicillium glaucum mold. Penicillium roqueforti , used in Roquefort cheese, may also be used. Whey is then removed during thickening, and the result is aged at low temperatures.
During the aging process the metal rods are quickly inserted and removed, creating an airway that allows the fungal spores to grow into hyphae and cause the cheeses typical of cheese. Gorgonzola is usually three to four months old. The length of the aging process determines the consistency of the cheese, which gets harder as it matures. There are two types of Gorgonzola, which differ mainly in their age: Gorgonzola Dolce (also called Sweet Gorgonzola) and Gorgonzola Piccante (also called Gorgonzola Naturale, Gorgonzola Montagna, or Mountain Gorgonzola).
Under Italian law, Gorgonzola enjoys Protected Geographic Status. DOP termed in Italy, this means that it can only be produced in the provinces of Novara, Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Cuneo, Lecco, Lodi, Milan, Pavia, Varese, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola and Vercelli, as well as a number of comuni in the region Casale Monferrato (Alessandria province).
Consumption
Gorgonzola can be eaten in many ways. It can be melted into risotto in the final stages of cooking, or served with polenta. Pasta with gorgonzola is a dish that is appreciated almost everywhere in Italy by gorgonzola lovers; usually gorgonzola using short pastes, such as penne, rigatoni, mezze maniche, or sedani, not with spaghetti or linguine. These are often offered as pizza toppings and sometimes added to salads. Combined with other soft cheeses it is the ingredients of pizza ai quattro formaggi (pizza four cheeses).
In high culture
James Joyce, in his 1922 Ulysses, gave his hero Bloom a "pint of Burgundy and a Gorgonzola sandwich". In his 1972 book Ulysses on the Liffey, Joyce's critic and scholar Richard Ellmann stated that "Apart from being the parable that life gave birth to corruption, Gorgonzola might have been chosen because of Dante's adventure with the Gorgon in Inferno IX Bloom has mastered the monster by digesting it. "
In popular culture
In the popular anime series Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, Maximillion Pegasus's main antagonist in an episode, commented in his castle dining room that times more precious to him were the moments spent with the best gorgonzola cheese and fruit juice in the world and copies of his favorite comic books.
In the video game Escape from Monkey Island , a character named Ignatius Cheese will talk about his famous family members, always producing a cheese. The latter is about his famous ugly aunt, whose image can make a man a stone; the funny part revealed his name to "Gorgon" Zola Cheese.
In the Hearthstone video game, in Kobolds & amp; Expansion Catacombs, there is a card called "Zola the Gorgon".
References
External links
- Consortium for Gorgonzola Cheese Protection
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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