Pecorino Romana, 180g

Name: Pecorino Romana, 180g
SKU: UNI13
Price: 8.90 EUR
Availability: InStock

About This Cheese

Rich, brothy flavours and aromas, with a dense, flaky texture. Pecorino Romano is generally used as a sharper alternative to Parmesan. It is ideal for pasta and perfect with cured meats and olives. Pecorino Romano is the true cheese for both carbonara and cacio-e-pepe.

€8.90

Story

The term ‘pecorino’ meaning ‘of sheep’ in Italian covers a wide range of ewe cheeses. More specifically there are four Pecorino PDO denominations coming from central Italy and Sardinia (where we source our cheese from). The cheese gets its name ‘Romano’ from its historical links to the Roman Empire and the Roman legionaries’ diet. The cheese was introduced to Sardinia after the Punic war, when Roman settlers found the island to have the perfect environment for cheesemaking: good pastures and sheep. The rest as they say, is history. Today Sardinia produces the majority of Pecorino Romano. CAO Formaggi Pecorino Romano PDO is dense, lightly crumbly, savoury and comes with the month and year of production engraved on the side.

Producer

CAO Formaggi (acronym for Cooperativa Allevatori Ovini) is an agricultural cooperative established in 1966 which today has 800 members. The cooperative was born out of the shared desire to transform high quality regional dairy milk into outstanding cheese. Together these farms uphold and respect their pastoral heritage of the Sardinian territory. The sheep live in a healthy and natural environment, and graze on herbs and aromatic shrubs that grow wild in the plains and hilltops. The fertile land in Sardinia contributes to making the cheese naturally distinct.