{"id":7955,"date":"2018-06-04T14:35:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T21:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\/?p=7955"},"modified":"2018-06-04T14:35:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T21:35:39","slug":"happy-national-cheese-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/2018\/06\/04\/happy-national-cheese-day\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make a Cold Fondue with Parmigiano-Reggiano Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>copyright 2018 Art of Living, PrimaMedia, Inc\/Maria Liberati<\/h6>\n<p>Guest Editor: Danasha Wise<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\/2012\/09\/16\/staycations-and-a-frittata-with-style\/parmigiana-and-cheese-grater\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4625\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\/2012\/09\/16\/staycations-and-a-frittata-with-style\/parmigiana-and-cheese-grater\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4625\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4625 size-medium\" title=\"National Cheese Day PH\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/parmigiana-and-cheese-grater-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"National Cheese Day PH\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>My favorite kitchen tool, nearby all the time, my Parmigiano Reggiano..and a cheese grater.. adds superb flavor to almost any meal! Maria Liberati<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><b>National Cheese Day (June 4)<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: #000000;\">Did you know that the average American consumes about 31 pounds of cheese each year? If there is one food that can be deliciously integrated into both sweet and savory dishes, its CHEESE! Cheese can be enjoyed as a snack or incorporated in one of your favorite pasta dishes or any other recipe. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">There are more than 900 cheese types, classified by taste and texture.&nbsp;Here are the primary classifications and some examples: fresh cheese (ricotta); soft cheese (feta); semi-soft cheese (Fontina); semi-hard cheese (Gouda); hard cheese (Cheddar); double or triple cr\u00e8me cheese (Brillat-Savarin); blue cheese (Gorgonzola); washed rind cheese (Limburger); and bloomy rind cheese (Brie).<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: #000000;\">The top five most popular kinds of cheese in the world include (in no order):<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: #000000;\">Mozzarella<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: #000000;\">Parmigiano-Reggiano<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: #000000;\">Cheddar<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: #000000;\">Brie<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: #000000;\">Gouda<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">One of my favorite things about Emilia-Romagna, besides its\u2019 beauty -is Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese- which makes any dish yummy,\u201d says Maria Liberati, (www.marialiberati.com), author of the Gourmand World Award Winning book series <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><i>The Basic Art of Italian Cooking<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">. Cheese is a food that is extremely universal. Cheese is the greatest connector for finding a new friend.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: #000000;\">You can celebrate this day by making your favorite cheesy dish. If you are a self-proclaimed cheese lover,&nbsp;indulge in your favorite type of cheese for national cheese day!<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n[amd-zlrecipe-recipe:8]<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><b>Celebrity Chef\/Award Winning Author-blogger Maria Liberati is the author of the Gourmand World Award Winning book series The Basic Art of Italian Cooking. She is executive editor of The Basic Art of Italian Cooking by Maria Liberati and blog at&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0563c1;\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\/blog2-\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><b>https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\/blog2-<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><b>&nbsp;winner of culinary travel blog of the year 2013 by the NY Travel Writers&#8217; Society, and with 300,000 worldwide subscribers. She is considered one of the foremost experts on Italian culinary arts and heritage and is frequently seen on TV and radio, working on her own PBS TV series currently. Maria has been featured in many well-known publications including Woman&#8217;s World, Cooking Light, Tastes of Italia, the San Francisco Chronicle and many others.<\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\/2018\/05\/24\/memorial-day\/attachment\/1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7911\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7911 size-medium\" title=\"Maria Liberati Cook Book\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-231x300.jpg?resize=231%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Maria Liberati Cook Book\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nConnect with Maria on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marialiberati?lang=en\">twitter!&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>copyright 2018 Art of Living, PrimaMedia, Inc\/Maria Liberati Guest Editor: Danasha Wise My favorite kitchen tool, nearby all the time, my Parmigiano Reggiano..and a cheese grater.. adds superb flavor to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,38,11],"tags":[2063,975,6,2543,229,907,102,1971,183],"class_list":["post-7955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appetizer-recipes","category-how-tos","category-recipes","tag-award-winning-journalist-maria-liberati","tag-celebrity-chef-maria-liberati","tag-cheese","tag-cheese-day","tag-cook","tag-female-celebrity-chef","tag-italy","tag-pbs-tv-show-host-maria-liberati","tag-summer"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}