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Personally I just stopped buying "true" Parmesan. Local hard cheese is good enough if not better. After few tries it's easy to figure out what to use if recipe
by mantas 5y ago
Personally I just stopped buying "true" Parmesan. Local hard cheese is good enough if not better. After few tries it's easy to figure out what to use if recipe asks for Parmesan(tm).
- denton-scratch 5y agoParmesan from Parma is a particular food. If you're OK with pecorino, that's a different taste, but it's a decent substitute in many recipes, and pecorino is preferable for some recipes. No doubt there are very nice hard cheeses made in places that are not famous for cheese; that's cool too. BBut let's not mush all hard cheeses together under the name of the most-famous hard cheese. It's famous for a reason.
- mantas 5y agoYes. Different local hard cheeses work as replacement for different famous trademarked hard cheeses. Sidenote: Pecorino Romano is one of the cheeses that I can't find a local replacement for :(