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the Alpine cheese that melts like it has somewhere important to be
means A semi-soft Italian cow's-milk cheese, mild and nutty, that melts smoothly and is prized in fondue and on toast.
from From Italian, named for the Fontina cheese of the Aosta Valley in the northwestern Alps. The exact source of the name is debated: some link it to the French word fondre, 'to melt,' a fitting nod to its meltability; others tie it to a local place name or to fontis. The cheese itself is old, recorded in the region for centuries, but the precise origin of its name remains genuinely uncertain.
- true home
- Aosta Valley, Italy, since the 12th century
- fonduta star
- Italy's answer to fondue leans on it
- summer milk
- best from cows grazing alpine pastures
- protected name
- holds EU origin protection like a passport
fontina val d'aosta — protected designation of origin cheese from the aosta valley in italy, produced since the 12th century
fontina di tartufo — italian fontina cheese infused with black truffle, popular in piedmont region