Casu Marzu

Casu Marzu, the cheese that’s alive! – Italian Cheeseaholic

Oftentimes, we think of things getting worse with age. How much money is spent for example on beauty treatments to rm up and smooth out wrinkled skin or on products to restore lost hair. This is true in many cases when we talk about food. Given the choice, most people would prefer a fresh loaf of bread compared to a hard and dried up one from a couple of days before, or recently picked fruit as opposed to fruit harvested many days previously, which is already starting to go bad.

Milk and milk products can though buck this trend. Usually, we think of old milk as being spoilt, but actually if watched over carefully, milk can become something tasty and healthy in the form of sour milk. Beyond this, cheese is perhaps one of the best examples of something that generally speaking improves with age. We could say that there’s no such thing as old cheese, there’s just mature cheese!

Casu Marzu, the cheese that’s alive! – Italian Cheeseaholic