Article: The Main Ingredient: Ewe'll love the real Pecorino Romano; Italian sheep's milk cheese stands apart from Parm

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Many Americans believe there is little difference between Parmesan and Romano cheeses. And they're right.

The dry, sawdust-like shavings that flutter out of those ubiquitous green plastic cans - whether they contain "Parmesan" or "Romano" - are harder to differentiate than West Virginia Democrats and Republicans.

But if you add a few little words here and there - make them, say, Pecorino Romano or Parmigiano-Reggiano - then the taste haze starts to clear.

Parmesan is the name for less expensive Parmigiano-Reggiano knock- offs. The true Parm is strictly produced, as it has been for centuries, in a small section of Italy. Romano follows suit as the ...

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