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You are free to buy or produce a hard dry sheep's cheese that isn't made in Emilia-Romagna. The name 'Parmesan' is a portmanteau of parts of the region (Parma,
by mmanfrin 4y ago
You are free to buy or produce a hard dry sheep's cheese that isn't made in Emilia-Romagna. The name 'Parmesan' is a portmanteau of parts of the region (Parma, Reggio Emilia). The name is the region so saying 'only thing made here can have *the name of the region*' is absolutely not "silly protectionism".
- cheese_goddess 4y agoParmesan is cow's milk cheese. You're thinking of Pecorino Romano, which is made with sheep's milk ("pecorino" is Italin for "from sheep").
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- gffrd 4y ago"Mmm, this Bordeaux is delicious!" "Do you mean 'Cabernet blend?' "
- stephenhuey 4y agoExactly. Nuances in the region such as grass and soil can affect the final flavor of the cheese. In the same way, chocolate from Mozambique is very unique, and I expect when a bag of coffee says Ethiopia or Costa Rica on it, it really ought to be from that places. The places grown truly affect the flavor for single-origin products, but it won’t matter so much if you’re consuming cocoa or coffee that’s blandly mixed together from different regions.
- 0des 4y agoterroir
- pcrh 4y ago"Parmesan" means "from Parma", the suffix -esan also occurs in words like courtesan, or partisan.
- robonerd 4y agoThe American government has little interest in protecting the word 'Parmesan' itself; firstly because doing so would be inconvenient to American cheesemakers^, and secondly, because Americans don't speak Italian anyway and don't perceive an implication of "From Parma" from the word "Parmesan", even if such an implication is obvious to those who do know Italian. ^ Just as European cheese regulations protect European cheese interests, so do American cheese regulations protect American cheese interests.