Is This Alpine Parmesan-Style Cheese Italy’s Best-Kept Secret? | Road to the Winter Olympics Ep 3

Is This Alpine Parmesan-Style Cheese Italy’s Best-Kept Secret? | Road to the Winter Olympics Ep 3

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As Italy prepares to host the Winter Olympics in the Dolomites, I traveled to Trentino to document how some of its most traditional foods are made. In this episode, I follow the making of Trentingrana, a giant alpine Parmesan-style cheese produced in cooperative dairies using raw mountain milk, copper vats, and long aging, to understand how scale, time, and alpine conditions shape one of Trentino’s most important cheeses.

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