Italian Cheese: A Guide to Their Discovery and Appreciation, Two Hundred Traditional Types

The first guide to Italy's traditional cheeses describes and documents two hundred and five farmhouse specialities with original texts and photographs. This inventory has been compiled by Slow Food as a contribution to the conservation of a vast heritage of local products, born of Italy's extraordinarily varied landscapes, natural environments, dairy breeds and cheesemaking techniques. A long, endlessly surprising, journey of discovery and pleasure through the Italy of "solid milk". With a wealth of information on cheese families, maturing, the art of cutting, and the vocabulary of cheese.

Slow Food, founded in 1986, is an international organization whose aim is to protect the pleasures of the table from the homogenization of the modern fast-food life. Through a variety of initiatives, it promotes gastronomic culture, conserves agricultural biodiversity and protects traditional foods at risk of extinction. It now boasts more than 80,000 members in 100 countries. A portion of the proceeds from sales of A World of Presidia will go to the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity to support Presidia projects.