Tag: Wisconsin

The Great Parmesan Cheese Enigma – https://slate.com/life/2025/09/italian-food-parmesan-cheese-parmigiano-reggiano.html

Grandi said that Wisconsin Parmesan, not Italian Parmigiano-Reggiano, has “stayed more or less true to the original recipe.” He also told me the name of a Wisconsin company that he thought was making just this type of old-school classic Parmesan: Sartori. Sartori, founded in 1939, is now a fourth-generation company headquartered between Milwaukee and Green Bay. It sells a variety of cheeses that are likely available in your local supermarket, as well as 72 countries worldwide. And Sartori’s Parmesan does look very different from contemporary Italian Parmigiano-Reggiano. It’s smaller, with that black rind. It also appears to have a different texture.

I just bought some Sartori parm for the weekend. Then I stumbled upon this article.