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Template:Lang (Template:IPA) is a type of Template:Lang ('stretched-curd') cheese made out of sheep's or cow's milk. It is produced throughout southern Italy, particularly in the Apennine Mountains and in the Gargano peninsula. Shaped like a teardrop, it is similar in taste to the aged southern Italian provolone cheese, with a hard edible rind.
Etymology
The Italian name of the cheese Template:Lang literally means 'horse cheese' and it is generally thought that the name derives from the fact that two cheese forms are always bound together with rope and then left to mature by placing them a cavallo, i.e. straddling, upon a horizontal stick or branch.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
History
A sort of Template:Lang was first mentioned around 500 BCE by Hippocrates, emphasising the "Greeks' cleverness in making cheese".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Columella in his classic treatise on agriculture, De re rustica (35–45 CE), described precisely the methods used in its preparation, making it one of the oldest known cheeses in the world.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Types of cheese with names similar to Template:Lang are common throughout the Balkans and southern Italy. In Sicily, the Ragusano DOP, known locally as Template:Lang had to drop the denomination "Template:Lang" in order to get DOP status.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Types
Many different types of Template:Lang exist in Italy, and several are recognised as Template:Lang (PAT), such as Template:Lang (produced using only milk from the Podolica cattle breed), Template:Lang (from Miscano Valley in the Apennines) or Template:Lang (often called Template:Lang).
Protected geographical status (PDO)
Template:Lang is made with cow's milk in designated areas of southern Italy, in the regions of Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise and Apulia, and gained protected geographical status in 1993.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In other languages
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Although the names are similar, each of these local speciality cheeses is different from both Template:Lang and each other.
See also
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