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Baked Lemon Ricotta is a Slice of Puglia

August 23, 2022 janet@janetfletcher.com
Baked Lemon Ricotta

Is it cheese…or is it cake? Or is it cheesecake? Baked lemon ricotta is a modern creation produced by a small family enterprise in Puglia, but there’s plenty of tradition behind it. In Sicily and Puglia, shepherds long ago figured out that they could bake their ricotta in their wood-burning oven and extend its lifespan. Thirty-five years ago, the Donvito family took the practice in a new direction, creating a line of sweet, sliceable baked ricottas flavored with lemon, coffee, cocoa and pistachio. The lemon version—the bestseller by far—turns up at American cheese counters occasionally and I’ve been eyeing it, but not trying it, for years.

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In From: Italy, Milk: Sheep Tags ricotta, Italian cheese, baked ricotta, formaggi, Puglia, Sicilian cheese, ricotta infornata, ricotta al forno, Donvito, Sapori dell’Antica Murgia, baked lemon ricotta
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Blockbuster Cheese

August 28, 2018 janet@janetfletcher.com
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You’re not imagining it. Burrata is everywhere.  A cheese that almost nobody knew 20 years ago (even in Italy) is now summer’s blockbuster. Retailers struggle to keep it in stock, and chefs have taken it well beyond the predictable insalata caprese. What else can you do with this dreamy dairy queen?

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In From: Italy, Milk: Cow, Milk: Water Buffalo Tags burrata, Market Hall Foods, Della Fattoria, insalata caprese, Nancy Harmon Jenkins, Puglia
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Summer’s Celebrity

September 6, 2016 janet@janetfletcher.com
FriedGreenTomatoes&Burrata

Move over, mozzarella. Burrata—a cheese that most Americans had never heard of a decade ago—is summer’s breakout star. I know that from restaurant menus, from observing grocery carts and from these stats from Di Stefano Cheese, the Southern California burrata producer whose product I adore:

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In From: U.S., Milk: Cow Tags Mozzarella, burrata, Di Stefano, Gioia, Puglia, Nancy Silverton, A-16, Sarah Scott
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