What can the Brits munch on that Americans can't at the Golden Arches? For the most part, the menu is quite similar. There's the Quarter Pounder, the McNuggets, and the fries are even called fries, not "chips." But there are a few things that you won't find in an American McDonald's—among them, a
Cadbury Creme Egg McFlurry and Mozzarella Sticks. (Actually, they're called "Mozzarella Dippers.")
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When
Robyn and I were in Phoenix, we stopped at Pane Bianco before our dinnertime pizzas at Pizzeria Bianco. The
caprese sandwich sounded unnecessary in theory given our tomato-cheese-starch-based meal in just a few hours, but that was so entirely false. The slices of bright tomato slices from a local Arizona farm are paired with crisp basil leaves and freshly pulled mozzarella. And no matter which sandwich you get, the bread is one of the best parts: the straight-from-the-wood-fired-oven circular loaves have just the right chew, dotted with charred crispy spots on top.
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The
Premium ($7.49) from
Toasters layers premium prosciutto with fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, and roasted red peppers, all piled gloriously atop a ciabiatta brushed lovingly with balsamic vinegar and olive oil that's then "toasted" in a panini press. After eating this, I thought about it for the next week straight.
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Burrata might be defined as mozzarella stuffed with extra curds of cheese, but at Don Otto's in Boston's South End, the creamy favorite gets injected with a third layer of deliciousness.
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Burrata can go
from udder to wrapper in just a few hours, as I learned on a visit to the Mozzarella Gioiella factory in the southern Italian region of Puglia.
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Photograph from Wikimedia Commons Late last week, the FDA announced a voluntary recall of Caseificio Voglie di Latte Burrata (only those packages with an expiration date of May 24, 2008) because of possible contamination by listeria. This particular brand is available in California from the distributor Fresca Italia, and although the news is certainly not positive, it is nonetheless evidence that burrata, an extraordinarily delicious fresh cheese originally from Southern Italy, is truly beginning to enter mainstream consumption in this country. Burrata was created as an ingenious way to make use of the small curds left over from the production of fresh mozzarella. These curds are mixed with fresh cream ("burro" is Italian for "butter") and then wrapped in...
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Photograph from KathyYLChan on Flickr Our friend Kathy Chan hit up Casa della Mozzarella, an Italian deli in the Bronx, over the weekend and came back with the amazing photo above. Via instant messenger: SeriousEats: Was it good? Kathyrella: OH GOD YES!...
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