Cheeses of Piedmont
4 cheeses tied to Piedmont: made, aged or sold there.
🇮🇹 ItalyTaleggiotalegg, taegg or taècc
A semi-soft washed-rind cow's milk cheese from Lombardy with a pinkish rind and fruity tang.Cow · Semi-soft
🇮🇹 ItalyCastelmagno
A semi-hard Italian cheese from Piedmont with blue veining and a sharp taste.Cow · Semi-hard · Sharp and tangy-aged
🇮🇹 ItalyToma
A soft to semi-hard Italian cow's milk cheese prized for melting.Cow · Bloomy rind
🇮🇹 ItalyGrana
A family of hard, granular Italian cow's-milk cheeses known for grating.Cow · Hard · Nutty
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Toma: Yozh, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Castelmagno: Marco Plassio, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Grana: MOs810, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Taleggio: FakirNL, CC BY-SA 3.0, source