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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