~ Who's An Idiot? ~

I am!! I am!! Pick me!!

There is a any number of reasons why I am an idiot, but this has to do with... cheese.

Here's the deal: growing up, my mother made spaghetti, as all good Italian mothers will, and at my house we always had the green cylinder of Kraft parmesan cheese that we sprinkled on top.

Nothin' wrong with that.

But when we ate at my grandparent's table we graced our plates with shavings from a wedge of stinky, bone dry cheese and this somehow made the food better, I believed.

On this I was not wrong.




...where I was wrong, and hence an idiot these thirty-odd years since I myself have been cooking, was in the belief that the cheese was parmesan.

Since watching the Food Channel I have learned that the Cadillac of cheese is Parmigiano- Reggiano (cow cheese), and this is what I have been using exclusively since then. And it is very good. Always freshly grated. All good.

But something was always missing.

On a whim (and a hint from Auntie Eve) I picked up a wedge of Pecorino-Romano (sheep cheese) on my last trip to the market.

Bingo!!!!!

It smells like butt and dirty socks and Italian underarm secretions but Sweet Weepin' Jesus it is what my grandfather used, I am sure of it now, and all is right with the world! Everything tastes better!

I once was blind but now I see!!


Try some today!


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