The Slow Food Presidia
at Cheese
The cheese Presidia protect a unique cultural heritage: livestock breeds adapted over the centuries to their local terroir, high-mountain pastures and dairies, ancient knowledge and traditional production techniques.
The Presidia at Cheese will represent two continents (Europe and Africa) and around a dozen countries. The event offers a unique opportunity to sample rarities such as Bulgaria’s Tcherni Vit green cheese, Jämtland cellar-matured goat’s cheese from Sweden and Kenyan Pokot ash yoghurt.
Some new Presidia will be making their debuts at Cheese this year, like Alpziger (goat’s milk ricotta), Mascarplin (traditional goat’s cheese from the Bregaglia Valley) and Sbrinz d’Alpe (a hard cheese made only in Alpine dairies) from Switzerland; Mavrovo-Reka mountain cheeses from Macedonia, including a raw sheep’s milk feta and Kashkaval, the ancestor of all Mediterranean pulled-curd cheeses; mountain Salers from France, made only from the milk of Salers cows that graze in the pastures of the Cantal mountains; and finally, from Italy, traditional stracchino from the Orobiche Valleys in Lombardy and Modicana cow’s milk Caciocavallo from Sicily.
Where
As during previous editions, the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity will present its projects in the San Rocco church, with a program of film screenings, photography exhibitions, tastings and seminars.
The international Slow Food Presidia will be on display along Via Principi di Piemonte, while the Italian Presidia will continue along Via Marconi into Piazza Valfrè di Bonzo (formerly the poultry market), where the producers of the Slow Food Presidium for historical Bitto will be presenting their products and welcoming visitors with tastings of Bitto and polenta. The same space will also host small-scale producers, guests of Cheese, in the Cheese Resistance Piazza, where visitors can meet herders and cheesemakers and taste hard-to-find cheeses.
Friday: 11 am to 11 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 10 am to 11 pm
Monday: 10 am to 8 pm
Italian Presidia
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Presidia participating in Cheese for the first time
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Campanian Appenine Noble Milk
The former aims to recognize the qualitative properties of the milk produced by cows that graze in the fields of the Appenines, near Benevento and Avellino. These pastures are uncontaminated and healthy environments, capable of transmitting unique nutritional properties to the animals.
Ciminà Caciocavallo.
The latter, the Ciminà Caciocavallo Presidium from the Aspromonte Park, involves a dozen of local producers that take part in a preservation project of local caciocavallo, a distinctive cheese for its shape and production method.
For more information, see www.presidislowfood.it.
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Italian cheese Presidia that will be featured in the Italian Presidia Market in Via Marconi
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Gargano Goat – Apulia
Gargano Podolico Caciocavallo - Apulia
Castel del Monte Canestrato – Abbruzzo
Farindola Pecorino – Abbruzzo
Basalicatan Podolico – Caciocavallo Basilicata
Campanian Appenine Noble Milk – Campania
Cilento Cacioricotta – Campania
Ciminà Caciocavallo – Calabria
Modenese White Cow – Emilia Romagna
Formadi Frant – Friuli Venezia Giulia
Marzolina – Lazio
Bagolino Bagòss – Lombardy
Heritage Bitton – Lombardy
Lodi Pannerone – Lombardy
Saviore Valley Fatulì – Lombardy
Coazze Cevrin – Piedmont
Macagn – Piedmont
Montébore – Piedmont
Mountain Castelmagno – Piedmont
Osilo Pecorino – Sardinia
Shepherds’ Fiore Sardo – Sardinia
Belìce Vastedda – Sicily
Girgentana Goat – Sicily
Madonie Provola – Sicily
Modicana Cow – Sicily
Aurina Valley Graukäse – Trentino Alto-Adige
Sole, Rabbi and Pejo Valleys Casolét – Trentino Alto-Adige
Moena Puzzone – Trentino Alto-Adige
Grigio Alpina Cow – Trentino Alto-Adige
Venosta Valley Ur-Paarl - Trentino – Alto-Adige
Aged Asiago – Veneto
Malga Monte Veronese – Veneto
Grappa Mountain Morlacco – Veneto
For more information, see www.presidislowfood.it
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Products involved in the Resistenza Casearia ("cheese resistence") project and present in Piazza Valfrè di Bonzo.
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Cheeses from La Chèvre Heureuse - Aosta Valley
Pecorini from the consortium Parco Produce – Abbruzzo
Conciato Romano Slow Food Presidium – Campania
Cabannina Cow - Liguria
Brigasca Sheep Tomas Slow Food Presidia - Liguria
Valtorta Agrì - Lombardy
Orobiche Valleys Traditional Stracchino Presidia - Lombardy
Sibillini Mountains Pecorino Slow Food Presidium - Marche
Langhe Sheep Tuma - Piedmont
For more information, see www.presidislowfood.it
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The Italian Presidia are identified by the “Presidio Slow Food®” logo.
Only products with this logo are genuinely part of the project (www.presidislowfood.it).
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