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Making an Impression

January 18, 2012 01:54 PM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

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If you've ever seen an entire wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano you know its distinctive stamps, which include not only the words Parmigiano-Reggiano all around the circumference, but the month and year of making, and numbers that signifiy at which caseificio it was made. Here's how that is done...

A plastic stencil is wrapped around the new wheel of cheese, which is then placed in a metal form, which makes the impression as it gives the newborn wheel its final, familiar shape.

Location: Caseificio Santa Lucia, in the mountains south of Modena, Italy

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