Taiada Silvania is a unique cheese made by a single producer in Sao Paulo's Caçapava municipality, who thought mixing milk with native leafcutter ants would be a great idea. Camila Almeida, the owner and founder of
For the uninitiated, “casu martzu is a Sardinian sheep milk cheese that contains live fly maggots. The larvae of the cheese fly are deliberately introduced to pecorino cheese, where their digestive action produces an advanced level of fermentation, including a breakdown of the cheese’s fats.”
For the uninitiated, “casu martzu is a Sardinian sheep milk cheese that contains live fly maggots. The larvae of the cheese fly are deliberately introduced to pecorino cheese, where their digestive action produces an advanced level of fermentation, including a breakdown of the cheese’s fats.”