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Article: The world's most expensive... cheese.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 19, 2005
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Byline: EMMA LUCAS
A cheese board is an obvious addition to your table at Christmas time, but deep pockets are required for Paxton & Whitfield's Truffle Pecorino. EMMA LUCAS gives a taste of the world's most luxurious cheese
What's its CV?
Pecorino is an ancient Italian cheese made from ewe's milk.
For thousands of years it has been handmade by farmers, grazing their sheep in the olive groves of Tuscany.
Yet it is the addition of the truffles, one of the world's most expensive natural foods, that makes this cheese so indulgent. To this day, truffles are sought by professional truffle hunters in Italy, called trifolaus. Dogs ...