Medieval Origins
History
A journey of a thousand years
Parmigiano Reggiano’s extraordinary journey has already lasted a thousand years, continuing to this day in the same places where it was born, fueled by the same passion and expertise, and using the same ingredients.
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The Renaissance
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They have there a whole mountain of grated Parmigiano cheese, and the people who live on it do nothing all day but make gnocchi and ravioli and cook them in capon broth, then roll them down the mountain for people to scramble after and collect.
”Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron, 1351. A description of the imaginary utopian land of Bengodi.
Parma, Modena and Reggio in the 17th century
Modern History
From STRESA to the CAP
The Protected Designation of Origin
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If you observe the texture of Parmigiano under a very strong magnifying glass, it is revealed to be not just an unchanging mass of granules linked together into cheese but a panorama. It is an aerial photograph of Emilia taken from a height similar to that of the Eternal Father
”Giovannino Guareschi (1908-1968), Italian writer and journalist
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