Parmesan Consortium

Food
Cheap Parmesan Is Made From Delicious Wood Pulp
The cheese they called Parmesan was a combination of cellulose (an anti-clumping agent made from wood pulp), white cheddar, Swiss, and mozzarella.
Alex Swerdloff
2.16.16
Food
These Italian Criminal Masterminds Heisted $875,000 Worth of Parmesan
In what is most certainly a grim sign of food depravity, a clandestine group of criminals were recently arrested by Italian authorities for the heinous act of stealing roughly €785,000 (US $875,000) worth of the nation’s delicious, iconic Parmigiano.
Alex Swerdloff
9.27.15
Food
The Cheese Mob Keeps Parmigiano-Reggiano in the Bank
Parmesan cheese, or Parmigiano-Reggiano, is money. It gets branded like a tattoo and sent directly off Parmigiano banks. But behind the dank flavor, this complicated wheel of enzymes and curds has an insane history guarded by a fiercely protective...
Charlotte Kamin
8.7.14