Last Monday ended the 12th edition of *Formaggio in Villa*, which takes place in the entirely (!) walled city center of charming Cittadella, a medieval town just a stone throw away from Padua in Italy´s Veneto region.
4 thrilling days of everything Italian Cheese, *Formaggio in Villa* also offers Salumi, Olive Oil, beer, wine and other Italian delicacies.
Besides eating, photographing, reading and dreaming cheese – traveling cheese is what Gustav and I like to do most. After all it combines all of the above with seeing new places, meeting new people as well as getting together with old friends.
*Marzolina* the diminutive form of the Italian word for March and a small by size but big by taste cheese from Italy´s Lazio region is a shining goat´s milk member of the PAT (prodotti agroalimentari tradizionali) and Presidio Slow Food family.
Living in Austria, Germany or even Italy means that getting your hands on cheese from Portugal is not that easy. The happier I was when a friend from high school called for a reunion meet up in Lisbon.
Last weekend it was finally time for *Progetto Forme* the annual Cheese Festival in Bergamo, Italy. For 3 days the upper town of Bergamo dresses in the name of cheese with many things to do, see, taste, experience, and listen to.
When traveling through northern Italy and its mountainous regions of the Piedmont and Aosta Valley one type of cheese that will often cross your path is a “Toma”.
It´s a mountainous pal – pressed, and often made from skimmed or partially skimmed milk – who finds his relatives in the French and Swiss “Tomme” who are lurking on the other side of the mountain peaks.
Gustav says nothing pairs better than 35degress and a cheese of barnyard floor quality and strongly advises to get your hands on ‘Le Petit Vinageois’, a French raw-milk delicacy from Normandy.
So here is some news: When in Sicily you cannot avoid Pecorino, and naturally all the vendors and cheese shops sell different kinds of it –young and old, natural or refined with all manners of spices.
We always wanted to scan Sicily for a longer workcation but since time is scarce we thought why not hop to Palermo for a few days and breath in some cheesy air as kind of an aperitivo for future travels to come.
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