Cheese, the Slow Food festival in Bra

Cheeses for Cheese, the Slow Food festival in Bra

Bra, in the Langhe of Piedmont, is the birthplace of the Slow Food movement, and since 1997 it has hosted Cheese, a festival held in September in odd-numbered years. Over four days the streets and squares fill with stalls from cheesemakers, mostly working with raw milk, from Italy and dozens of other countries, with tastings, workshops and a hall of the small producers that Slow Food supports. The local cheeses are well represented: Bra, the pressed cow's-milk cheese named after the town; Castelmagno from the high valleys; and Raschera from the Monregalese. Dates are announced by the organisers.

The cheeses

BraThe town's own pressed cheese, sold soft or hard.RascheraSquare or round cheese of the Monregalese pastures.TomaThe everyday table cheese of Piedmont.