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Agri

fresh cow or goat's milk cheese

A rare cheese, hand salted and shaped into little cylinders from the Valle Brembana north of Bergamo, with a fresh, tangy taste. It is usually eaten within a day or two, and yellows with age, and hard to find outside of the area where it's made.

Slow Food Presidium: Agrì di Valtorta

Cheeses & Dairy Products

Lombardy

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Text © Dana Facaros & Michael Pauls

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