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Cheeses & Dairy Products
France may be famous for an ungovernable number of cheeses, but Italy isn't far behind in its sheer number and variety of cheeses. For details, see formaggio and Italian Cheese words.
Italian cheese words
reading the labels
Abbamare
Sardinian semi-soft cheese
Accasciato
a rare cow's and buffalo's milk cheese
Acidino
soft fresh goat's milk cheese
Agri
fresh cow or goat's milk cheese
Ainuzzi
cow's cheese in the shape of animals
Asiago
cow's milk cheese
asino
donkey or cheese
Baccellone
a Tuscan sheep cheese
Bagoss di Bagolino
cow's milk cheese with a pinch of saffron
Barricato
aged in barrels, and a cheese from Treviso
Bastardo del Grappa
cow's milk cheese from Mount Grappa
Bebè di Sorrento
baby caciocavallo
Bel Paese
semi-soft white cheese
Bella Lodi
'Black Parmesan'
Belmonte
soft cow's milk cheese
Bettelmatt
Cow's milk cheese from the Walser valleys
Bitto
beloved cheese from the Valtellina
blu
blue cheese
bocconcini
'little mouthfuls'
Botìro di Primiero di Malga
butter from mountain meadows
Bra
Cow's milk cheese
Branzi
whole cow's milk cheese from the Bergamo valleys
Bros
manky cheese transfigured
Brunet
creamy goat's milk cheese
bufala
mozzarella
Burrata
creamy, buttery mozzarella-like cheese
Burrino
cheese with a butter filling
burro
butter
cacio e uova
cheese balls
cacio
semi-soft cheese
Caciocavallo
hanged sheep or cow's milk cheese
Caciofiore
fresh sheep's cheese made with vegetable rennet
Cacioricotta
a soft, mixed cheese
Caciucavaddu
Sicilian Caciocavallo
caglio
rennet
Canestrato
partially cooked cheese made in a basket
Capralpina
pure goat cheese
caprino
goat cheese
Carmasciano
sheep's cheese from Avellino
Carnia
cow's milk cheese from near Belluno
Casatella Trevigiana
soft 'homemade' cow's milk cheese
casciotta
Renaissance cheese
Casieddu di Moliterno
goat's milk cheese
Casizolu
cow's milk cheese from Sardinia
Casolèt
'little' mountain cheese
Casoperuto
sheep and goat's milk cheese from Caserta
Castelmagno
The 'King of Cheeses'
Casu Axedu
Sardinian cheese, sometimes with maggots
Cevrin di Coazze
cow's and goat's milk cheese
Cinerino
sheep's milk cheese from the Cilento
Conciato Romano
ancient 'pickled' cheese
crema
cream
crescenza
soft white and mild fermented cow's milk cheese
Fatulì della Val Saviore
smoked goat cheese
Felciata di Morano
'fern' cheese
fior di latte
cow’s milk mozzarella
Fiore Sardo
Sardinian sheep cheese
fonduta
cheese sauce, fondue
Fontal
hybrid cow's milk cheese
Fontina
Aosta's famous cheese
Formadi Frant
a mix of cheeses blended in cream
formaggella
little goat cheeses
Formaggetta della Valle Argentina
little white cheese from the Ligurian mountains
formaggio
cheese
Formaggio di Fossa
pit cheese
Formaggio Grigio
'grey cheese'
Formai de Mut
Mountain cheese from the Valle Brembana
Frachet
soft herbal cheese
frico
cheese wafer or cheese and potatoes
Gioda
Fontina style cheese from Piedmont
gioddu
fermented sheep or goat's milk
Giuncata
a soft cheese from the south
Gorgonzola
sweet or savoury blue-veined cheese
grana
hard grainy cheese
Grana Padano
hard cow's milk cheese
Granone Lodigiano
Lodi's special hard cheese
Gransardo
Hard sheep's milk cheese
Grasso d'Alpe
Old fashioned cow's milk cheese
Graukäse
'grey cheese' from Alto Adige
Guttus
Tuscan blue cheese
imbriago
'intoxicated' cheese
Jamar
Cave cheese from the Carso
La Tur
buttery 3 milk cheese from the Alta Langa
Latteria
Friulian cow's milk cheeses
Macagn
creamy buttery cheese
Maiorchino
a sporty Sicilian sheep cheese
Marcetto
sheep cheese with little worms
Marzellina
goat's and sheep's milk cheese
Marzolino
a Tuscan sheep cheese
Marzotica
Pugliese sheep's milk cheese
Mascarpone
thick cream cheese
Maschèrpa
Alpine ricotta
millefoglie
many layered dessert or cheese
Molana
fresh white goat and cow's milk cheese
Montasio
iconic mountain cheese
Monte Veronese
cheese from the Lessini mountains
Montebore
'castle cheese'
Morlacco del Grappa
cow's milk cheese from the Grappa hills
mozzarella
mozzarella
Muffato
boutique blue cheese with a special rind
Murazzano
rich sheep's milk cheese
Murianengo
Piedmontese cheese, similar to gorgonzola
Murtarat
'firecracker' cheese from Piedmont
Musulupu
fresh sheep and goat's milk cheese
Nostrano Valtrompia
hard cheese aged in mines
Occhione di Carnia
cow's milk cheese
Ol Sciur
'the boss' cheese
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butter melted until all the water is removed
Ossolano
cow's milk cheese from Lake Maggiore
Paglierina
cow's milk's 'straw cheese'
Pallone di Gravina
aged Puglian cheese
Paltufa
Gorgonzola with black truffles
panna
cream
Pannerone
'white gorgonzola'
Panuzzu Affumicato
Smoked cow's milk cheese balls
Parmigiano-Reggiano
Parmesan cheese
pecorino
sheep's milk cheese
Pegorin
sheep's milk cheese
Piacentino Ennese
sheep cheese flavoured with saffron
Piave
nutty cow's milk cheese from the Dolomites
Pizzocorno
strong and square
Plaisentif
mountain violet cheese
prescinseua
curdled milk
primo sale
'salted' fresh sheep cheese
Provatura
mini-mozzarella
Provola
cheese from Campania and Sicily
Provolone
one of Italy's famous cheeses
Puzzone di Moena
smelly cheese from the Dolomites
Quartirolo Lombardo
soft cow's milk cheese shaped like a brick
Ragusano
A DOP Sicilian cheese
Raschera
semi fat cooked cow's milk cheese
raspadura
cheese shavings
Raviggiolo
fresh cheese
reblec
fresh mountain cheese
Rebruchon
Piedmont's answer to reblochon
Ribiola
spreadable sheep's milk cheese
ricotta
soft whey cheese
ricotta salata
'salted' ricotta
Robiola
soft white cheese in many forms
Rocchetta
soft mixed milk cheese
Roccolo Valtaleggio
'bird snare' cheese
Rosa Camuna
rose-shaped cow's milk cheese
Salato
cow's milk 'salt' cheese
Salignon
spicy ricotta, Piedmontese style
Salva Cremasco
'saved' cheese
Saras del fen
Piedmontese ricotta in hay
Scamorza
similar to mozzarella
Schiz
soft fresh white 'cooking' cheese
Scimudin
soft white cheese from the Valtellina
Scoppolato di Pedona
'Big foot's' sheep cheese
Scuete fumade
smoked ricotta
siero di latte
whey
Silter
traditional alpine cheese from the Val Camonica
Slattato
raw cow's milk cheese from the Marche
Sola
intense cow, goat and/or sheep cheese
Spressa delle Giudicarie
traditional alpine cheese
Squacquerone
soft Romagna cheese
Stelvio//Stilfser
semi hard cow's milk cheese
Stracchino
fresh, creamy cow's milk cheese
stracciatella
egg drop soup or ice cream or cheese
Strachitunt
Bergamo's layered blue cheese
Tabor
cow's milk cheese from the Carso
Taleggio
DOP cheese from Lombardy
Testun
cheese aged in chestnut leaves or Barolo
Toma
hard or semi hard cow's milk cheese
Tombea
Alpine cow's milk cheese
tomino
soft cow's milk cheese
Torregio
complex cow's milk cheese
Tosella
fresh cow's milk cheese
tosone
fresh Parmesan off-cuts, usually fried
Trentingrana
hard cheese from Trento
Tuada
'cellar' sheep's cheese from the Garfagnana
Tuma
a Sicilian cheese that travelled far
ubriaco
'drunken'
Valle d'Aosta fromadzo
cow's milk cheese from Aosta
Valtellina casera
cow's milk cheese from the Alps
Vastedda
DOP sheep cheese (or bread) from Sicily
Vezzena
cow's milk cheese from Trentino
yogurt
yoghurt
Ziger
cheese made from goat's milk whey
Zoncolan di Capra
goat's milk cheese from Friuli