Mountain Cheeses
Italy’s mountain cheeses encompass many local recipes, from hard cheeses to soft and goat’s milk cheeses.
- Scope
- Several regional cheese styles
- Lombard examples
- Branzi; local formaggelle; caprini
Different valleys, different cheeses
Lombardia’s regional catalog describes alpine cheeses, short-matured soft cheeses, and goat cheeses across its mountain valleys. This broad culinary family does not specify one milk or maturation rule.
