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PECORINO TOSCANO
Sheep’s Milk Cheese
Pecorino is the most Tuscan of cheeses. It is made from sheep’s milk (sheep is pecora in Italian) and is delicious either fresh or mature. Pecorino has been produced in Tuscany since Etruscan times.
The first historical mention comes from Pliny the Elder in a description of Luni (the modern Lunigiana). Sheep farming continued throughout the Middle Ages and there is the famous episode of Giotto who, while shepherding his flock near Vicchio in the Mugello, painted on the stones.
Pecorino Toscano D.O.P. is made from whole sheep’s milk with the addition of rennet from cows’ milk. The cheese is white and delicately flavoured with a hint of spiciness. Pecorino can be eaten in pieces or it can be grated when mature.
