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Default Good Italian deli in southern California?


"pavane" > ha scritto nel messaggio
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> "Giusi" > wrote in message
> | Vilco will back me up on this: there is no such thing as bad Parmigiano
> | Reggiano, but all of that comes from Parma and not from any other
> country or> | state or even any other part of Italy. It comes different
> ages, but that's
> | all the variety there is.
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> I don't wish to quibble (well of course I do) but Parmigiano Reggiano
> comes> from Modena, Parma, Reggio Emilia, Bologna and Mantova. There are
> distinct


All the same area, all the cows eat much the same. I was illustrating
buying real and not a copy, so yes, they make it in more than one town but
it is all the same zone. It's so reliable it's unbelievable. I think Vilco
likes 22 months of aging.