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Burrata di bufala with sliced tomatoes. Burrata (Italian:) is an Italian cow's milk (occasionally buffalo milk) cheese made from mozzarella and cream. [1] The outer casing is solid cheese, while the inside contains stracciatella and clotted cream, giving it an unusual, soft texture. It is a speciality of the Puglia region of southern Italy.
Draught water buffalo in the Foro Romano, 1900; on the left are the three columns of the Temple of Castor and Pollux. Cow in the Agro Pontino. There are conflicting hypotheses concerning the origins of the European water buffalo: one, based on fossil bones found in the valleys of the Elbe and the Rhine, is that it descends from the extinct European wild species Bubalus murrensis; others ...
The Consorzio per la Tutela also refers to fossil evidence (the prehistoric European Water Buffalo, Bubalus murrensis) suggesting that water buffalo may have originated in Italy. [26] A fourth theory is that water buffalo were brought from Mesopotamia into the Near East by Arabs and then introduced into Europe by pilgrims and returning ...
The Neolithic founder crops (or primary domesticates) are the eight plant species that were domesticated by early Holocene (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) farming communities in the Fertile Crescent region of southwest Asia, and which formed the basis of systematic agriculture in the Middle East, North Africa, India ...
Stracciatella cheese is composed of small shreds—hence its name, which in Italian is a diminutive of straccia ('rag' or 'shred'), meaning 'a little shred'. It is a stretched curd fresh cheese, white in colour, and made the whole year round, [2] [3] but is thought to be at its best during the spring and summer months. [2]
Mozzarella (English: / ˌ m ɒ t s ə ˈ r ɛ l ə /, Italian: [mottsaˈrɛlla]; Neapolitan: muzzarella, Neapolitan: [muttsaˈrɛllə]) is a semi-soft non-aged cheese prepared using the pasta filata ('stretched-curd') method with origins from southern Italy.
Bruschetta (/ b r uː ˈ s k ɛ t ə / broo-SKET-ə, [1] Italian: [bruˈsketta] ⓘ) is an Italian appetizer consisting of grilled bread topped with garlic, olive oil, and salt.Most commonly it is served with toppings of tomatoes, vegetables, beans, cured meat or cheese.
Capocollo; Alternative names: Capicollo (Tuscia viterbese, Campania, Molise, Apulia, Basilicata and Calabria), ossocollo (Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia), finocchiata (Siena), coppa di collo (Romagna), capocollo or corpolongo (northern Lazio and central-southern Umbria), lonza (central-southern Lazio) or lonzino (Marche and Abruzzo), scamerita or scalmarita (northern Umbria and Tuscany ...