Recife

I buy it at the local supermarket. I put it in my food -- it's delicious. It's like parmesan cheese, like romano cheese, but it's neither. It's something else. And I can't find any information about it. Google doesn't help me. It shows up as an ingredient in a few recipes (all in Portuguese). Cheese.com has never heard of it. Does anyone here know what it is?

Razzler

your worst nightmare !

Dane

I bought some burgers from M&S a couple of months ago and didn't notice they had Roquefort cheese in them. Won't be making that mistake again, nasty nasty stuff. :/

Asmodeus

Roquefort is utterly wizard you nonce.

Recife

Probably. In my head I keep hearing Lewis Black saying, "It could be zebra cum. You! Don't! Know!"

Daaaaave

:thup:

Jimbhoy

Roquefort - one of my favourite cheeses. :cool:

Recife

Roquefort is very nice.

But what is parmentino? Am I the only one who has even heard of it?

gaga_4_parma

Maybe it's made up...seeing as they can't use Parmigiano or any other registered trade marked or protected name. So they mixed Parmigiano-and some other tino ending cheese variety.

Recife

That's a good idea. Still, it looks like anybody and everybody can use "Parmesan" or "Parmesão", so why go to the trouble? A couple of Brazilian recipe sites mention it as a different type of cheese, but give no further information. I'm confused, but still eating it.