Smell 2013: cheese, what a stench!



The expert Michele Grassi

The title is obviously ironic, especially said by me who loves cheese. Their aroma, their wonderful stench was the theme of the most interesting conference at the 2013 edition of  Smell, showing so a Festival in great shape. The expert of cheese making techniques, O.n.a.f. tasting master and cheese critic Michele Grassi enraptured the public with a journey through the richness of more than 600 italian cheeses, of which 43 d.o.p. that are no way inferior to the french ones in terms of high quality but that for sure offer a wider variety reflecting our particular geographic form conpared to the plateau on the other side of the Alps. As reported on his website and as Michele repeated quoting Isabel Allende, "cheeses are milk, bacteria and fantasy" therefore there's no wonder if picking milk in a certain place, at a certain time of the day you can obtain till to 10 different kinds of cheese. Nature does most of the job and the only way to taste it at its best is to know it better.