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yeah. so we dip the taralli inside the blue cheese. that s really incredible. yeah. the mixture of the two, you have the sharpness of the blue, but then it s softened by the burrata. yeah. that s incredible. you re smart, aren t you? others might be content to stop there, but vito s continually improving on his creations and experimenting with new ideas. and where better to put his theories to the ultimate taste test than a cheese bar, which he opened with his fiancee, roberta, in the middle of the mercadante forest just outside altamura. i ve never heard of a cheese bar before. i like this. this is the only one in the world. here customers enjoy the full selection of vito s invented cheeses, but he s never forgotten how he started out on this unconventional journey. one item on the menu is focaccia barese, which vito s mother used ....
Yeah. so we break like this. what made you think to do this? i live in california for a while. oh, you did? yeah, in pasadena. oh, in pasadena. and i love surfing. so, you know, the blue of the ocean, so i want to do blue cheese. while vito s brothers were open-minded about creating new cheeses, a puglian blue was a step too far for the family. what did you think? i thought, he is crazy. what is he doing? my father shouted, it s too salty. my father said to tell him, don t let him do that. then he improved a lot over time. yes, yes. eventually, with the help of his family s constructive criticism, vito perfected the recipe and a spoonful of blue was born. so these are taralli. yes. made by my mom. yeah. so we dip the taralli inside the blue cheese. ....
Continue the family tradition, but to do something no one in this region had ever done before, create a puglian blue cheese. as you know, puglia is most famous for burrata, so today i want to show you what i did 15 years ago. this was my first blue cheese i did in puglia. vito s created 66 different types of blue. pretty impressive when you consider how hard they are to make. typically, mold is injected into a cow s milk base, which is left to age in mountain caves for up to six months. right now, wherever you go, you find gorgonzola. it s an amazing cheese, but i want to do my own cheese. so we break it. this one is a goat blue cheese, one of the stronger taste cheese that we have. and this is the art of the burrata. it s a burrata cream. so then this is a cow s milk. this is cow s milk, but the base is goat milk. ....
that s really incredible. yeah. the mixture of the two, you have the sharpness of the blue, but then it s softened by the burrata. yeah. that s incredible. you re smart, aren t you? others might be content to stop there, but vito s continually improving on his creations and experimenting with new ideas. and where better to put his theories to the ultimate taste test than a cheese bar, which he opened with his fiancee, roberta, in the middle of the mercadante forest just outside altamura. i ve never heard of a cheese bar before. i like this. this is the only one in the world. here customers enjoy the full selection of vito s invented cheeses, but he s never forgotten how he started out on this unconventional journey. one item on the menu is focaccia barese, which vito s mother used to make for his school lunches. ....
nice to meet you. this is my sister, victoria. nice to meet you. pleasure. and there are more, right? yeah, five of us. and we work all year, all together. how is that? it s amazing. is it? yeah. sometimes a little hard? yeah. you know, we fight every day, but at the same time, we love each other. and your grandfather started yeah, angelo antonio, my grandfather bought this place. but before him, his father start in a farm in altamura with nothing, with two, three cows, and he start to make mozzarella, scamorza, caciocavallo. four generations of diceccas have continued to make these iconic southern italian cheeses. follow me, please, stanley. i will. i will. but bucking convention, vito chose not to join the family business, escaping puglia to travel the world instead. when he told people he was a cheese maker, he was surprised how enthusiastic they were. he returned to his family s casa ficcio, eager not just to ....