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Gorgonzola Dolce ( 1 lb.) | 
 enlarge | Brand: Gelmini
Category: Gourmet
This item is no longer available
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 19632
Country: Italy
Media: Misc.
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
ASIN: B000TFZMBS
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| Features:
 | Young gorgonzola is mild and creamy, beloved for its soft spreadable texture | | | Northern Italy's classic blue |
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Product Description
Legend has it that this cheese was created by accident: An inattentive cheesemaker left some fresh milk out to drain for too long. Hoping it wouldnt make a difference to the batch of cheese he planned to make, he used the resulting curd anyway. Months later, he found that some of his cave-aged wheels had a strange blue-green streak of mold. With some trepidation, he tasted the new cheese and found it was terrific. Today, most blue cheeses are injected with mold-producing bacteria to speed the process along. This modern process has had little effect on the flavor of the cheese and most gorgonzola is still cave aged for some period of time.Dolce Gorgonzola is a younger, therefore milder, version of aged Gorgonzola. Dolce, by nature of its shorter aging time, is wetter and more ivory colored than Gorgonzola Naturale, which is drier and whiter and tends to have bluer streaks. It has a soft, spreadable texture and slightly salty aftertaste. Its texture makes it perfect for spreading on bread and crackers. It is also excellent in risotto and polenta, mixed into vinaigrette, melted on pizza or used as a dip. Gorgonzola shines when paired with berries, pears, peaches and plums.
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| Customer Reviews:
Gorgonzola dolce September 26, 2007
It lacks the salt that Gorgonzola offers in its alternative version. Eating it by itself was too bland, for me. But if you smear it on a piece of toast, it is more tasty, but still not the taste of the saltier version, that I like better. It spreads well on toast. Perhaps if I ate enough of it, I could learn to appreciate it more, especially if its saltier counterpart is not available, as was the case when I bought this.
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