What is Asiago cheese?

[Bradley E. Wohlenberg]

Okay, I have a recipe which I was planning to make tomorrow night which
calls for Asiago cheese. I thought, cool, I'll just pick some up at the
grocery store. Wrong! Can anyone solve this mystery before my dinner
party tomorrow night? Will anything else substitute?

Thanks!

Jennifer

[j...@pink.dwp.la.ca.us]

Hi Jennifer,
Asiago is a hard Greek cheese, similar to a good parmgiano
reggiano in texture and flavor. You can you the parmesan as a
substitute if you can't find asiago at any other source.
Good Luck.
jv

[Robert J. Shaw]

In article <3g4v13$6...@crl5.crl.com>, bwoh...@crl.com (Bradley E.
Wohlenberg) wrote:

A nice hard cheese, think parmesan or romano.

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Rita or Joe Shaw

[Anne Bourget]

It is a hard or semi-hard Italian cheese made from whole or part-skim
cow's milk. The young cheese is served as a table cheese; aged cheese is
for grating. It has a nice nutty flavor. Parmesan can be substituted.

Anne
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Anne Bourget bou...@netcom.com

[Lois Siegel]

You can find Asiago cheese in an Italian grocery store. It's
rather tart in taste. I love it.

Lois Siegel

[Viviane Buzzi]

>Thanks!
Well, Asiago cheese is a cheese which comes from the mountain area of
the Veneto region of Italy. It can usually be bought at various ages,
from quite fresh to aged for several years (good for grating when aged).
It has a nice bite to it when aged and is great with crusty bread and
red wine. If you want to substitute, try a Montasio cheese if you cannot
find Asiago cheese (it is also a mountain cheese from the Friuli region
of Italy, east of the Veneto) or any good hard mountain cheese with
a bit of bite.

Cheers

viviane buzzi
v...@physics.unimelb.edu.au

[Celandine]

j...@PINK.dwp.la.ca.us wrote:

: Hi Jennifer,

Isn't asiago Italian? And it is not as hard as parmasean. It is more
the texture of a hard cheddar. I like to eat it with pears and apples.

Celandine

[Viviane Buzzi]

Umm....I hate to disagree but Asiago is NOT a Greek cheese at all!
It comes from the Asiago mountain region of the Veneto region of Italy,
north of Venice. It is not really like parmigiano in texture unless
aged significantly and the flavour is different but you can substitute
that or grana or Montasio cheese (another mountain cheese from the
Carnia region of the Friuli region of Italy) which is actually much
closer in taste and texture to Asiago.

Viviane

v...@physics.unimelb.edu.au