{"id":627,"date":"2011-02-19T21:03:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T01:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheese.carrotseverywhere.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2011-02-19T21:03:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T01:03:24","slug":"italian-cheeses-from-wegmans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch2.carrotseverywhere.com\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"Italian cheeses from Wegman’s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wegman's Italian Cheeses<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We went across town to Wegman’s<\/a><\/strong>, a very large grocery store in\/near Lanham. It’s only 12 miles away, but with no easy way to get there, it takes a good 40-50 minutes from DC. It’s in\u00a0 a megamall area with a Costco, Best Buy, Petco and more. They had 28 checkouts, a cafe, live music, a bakery and more — but we particularly went for cheese. We’d also read the Washington Post article, “‘Club Wegmans’ in Pr. George’s: Smooth jazz and smoother pickup lines<\/a>” and seen a special on TV (and then we ended up meeting the chef, Joe Serock,<\/a> there). We didn’t eat there, though, we went to the nearby Levis Restaurant<\/a> for BBQ.<\/p>\n

Anyway, while we were at the cheese counter AKT turned her back on me and I was unsupervised for a while (probably not a good idea).\u00a0 I found 5 very nice Italian cheese for tonight’s tasting. Wegman’s has a huge cheese selection, including some of the biggest wheels we’ve seen. They have a tasting table, but don’t seem to let you taste the cheese like the Calvert Woodley cheesemonger. However, they did cut several of the large pieces into smaller pieces for us.<\/p>\n

We had so many cheeses, we invited neighbor L, who we discovered was also with NC Stat’s Wolfpack. L is a goat cheese fan, and she likes the goat cheese brie from Brookville t<\/a>hat AKT likes. She isn’t as much into hard, aged cheeses–we will need to get her a triple-cream next time.<\/p>\n

Vento d’estate<\/a><\/strong>, a cow’s milk cheese from Monfenera, a historical mountain in Treviso, Italy.\u00a0 Rolled in hay and aged in oak barrels buried in hay and herbs. The name means “summer wind”.<\/p>\n

Pecorino Toscano oro Antico<\/a><\/strong>, a semi-hard pecorino (sheep’s milk) cheese brushed with olive oil during aging.\u00a0 From the Tuscany region of Italy. Aged one year.<\/p>\n

Pecorino Ginepro<\/a><\/strong>, made from unpasteurized sheep’s milk cheese from Emilia-Romagna, Italy.\u00a0 Aged for 4 to 6 months and rubbed with juniper berries and basalmic vinegar during aging.<\/p>\n

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Quadrello di Buffala<\/a><\/strong>, a washed-rind (stinky) buffalo milk cheese from Lombardia, Italy.\u00a0 Said to be like tallegio. We found it wasn’t that strong. It was good with the Olive Fougasse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gorgonzola mountain piccante<\/a><\/strong> is a cow’s milk blue produced in the Piedmonte and Lombardy regions of Italy. D.O.P Mountain Gorgonzola comes in two styles, the younger sweet, creamy Dolce, and the elder, stronger Piccante with its thicker, drier rind and punchier flavor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We went across town to Wegman’s, a very large grocery store in\/near Lanham. It’s only 12 miles away, but with no easy way to get there, it takes a good 40-50 minutes from DC. It’s in\u00a0 a megamall area with a Costco, Best Buy, Petco and more. They had 28 checkouts, a cafe, live music, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,34,41,42,43,48],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheese","tag-buffalo","tag-goat-brie","tag-italian","tag-italian-cheese-wegmans","tag-italy","tag-pecorino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ch2.carrotseverywhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ch2.carrotseverywhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ch2.carrotseverywhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ch2.carrotseverywhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ch2.carrotseverywhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ch2.carrotseverywhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ch2.carrotseverywhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ch2.carrotseverywhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ch2.carrotseverywhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}