Definitions

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  • noun An Italian cheese, similar to provolone, originally from Sicily.

Etymologies

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Italian on horseback from the custom of draping two cheeses over a pole to dry

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Examples

  • So it was no surprise when she was proclaimed the winner for her meatball slider on potato focaccia with caciocavallo cheese.

    Not Your Mother's Meatballs Sumathi Reddy 2010

  • The vegetarian sandwich—stuffed with chickpea fritters and ricotta and caciocavallo—has it roots in Palermo, Italy.

    Sandwiches to Go 2011

  • The sandwich encases four medium sized meatballs between a pair of thick pieces of grilled focaccia with a melted slice of caciocavallo cheese and a sprinkling of romano.

    Your First Look at the Food Trend Collision That is Donatella’s Meatball Wagon | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2010

  • So you do not have to know your caciocavallo from your Castelmagno to enjoy the story.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • De Amicis listened in pity as the wide-eyed peasants invoked the gifts they were taking to the Americas: “a bottle of local wine, a caciocavallo cheese, a salame, a kilo of pasta from Genoa or Naples, a liter of oil, a box of dried figs, even an apron-full of beans, but beans from home, from some special corner of the vegetable patch that their relative or friend would surely remember.”

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • Poking around in the book yesterday, I kept coming across recipes contain the ingredient caciocavallo.

    Cheese on Horseback tannaz 2006

  • Poking around in the book yesterday, I kept coming across recipes contain the ingredient caciocavallo.

    Archive 2006-12-01 tannaz 2006

  • These cheeses are of all sizes and all shapes, from the great, round, flat cheese that we are accustomed to see in country grocery stores, to the queer-shaped caciocavallo, which looks like an Indian club and is eaten with fruit.

    Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining. Clarence E. Edwords

  • Next, try the thin-crusted uovo pizza with brussels-sprout leaves, cubes of guanciale and two cheeses - fior di latte and caciocavallo - all topped with an oozy egg.

    NYT > Home Page By INGRID K. WILLIAMS 2011

  • Next, try the thin-crusted uovo pizza with brussels-sprout leaves, cubes of guanciale and two cheeses - fior di latte and caciocavallo - all topped with an oozy egg.

    NYT > Home Page By INGRID K. WILLIAMS 2011

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