robiola

And it's around the time you take your first sip of Fernet Branca that you start pronouncing "robiola" and "Montepulciano" with gusto while reminiscing about strolls through Trastevere.

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The truffled hazelnuts make everything they touch seriously delicious, the robiola cheese sformato lends the vegetables a smooth souffle-like creaminess, and even the vegetables and fruits on their own are intensely flavored, alternately sweet and savory.

Ed Levine: The Four-Star Italian We've Been Waiting For 2009

We chose three, but the only one that mattered was the robiola.

Archive 2008-07-01 tannaz 2008

From the robiola family, it's a little tangier than what we had at AOC, but a small puddle of the stuff, along with a big bunch of grapes and a bit of bread, has made me many decadent, simple, dinners.

Archive 2008-07-01 tannaz 2008

From the robiola family, it's a little tangier than what we had at AOC, but a small puddle of the stuff, along with a big bunch of grapes and a bit of bread, has made me many decadent, simple, dinners.

cheese love tannaz 2008

I've had a lot of cheese (hoo boy, a lot of cheese), but this robiola has singlehandedly crystallized what makes, for me, the perfect cheese: light bloomy rind (not crazy thick and impenetrable like brie), heavy stink (in the best way), and so rich that as it sits at room temperature, it gets oozy enough to be sopped up with a little crust of bread.

cheese love tannaz 2008

I've had a lot of cheese (hoo boy, a lot of cheese), but this robiola has singlehandedly crystallized what makes, for me, the perfect cheese: light bloomy rind (not crazy thick and impenetrable like brie), heavy stink (in the best way), and so rich that as it sits at room temperature, it gets oozy enough to be sopped up with a little crust of bread.

Archive 2008-07-01 tannaz 2008

We chose three, but the only one that mattered was the robiola.

cheese love tannaz 2008

Next up was a trio of amuses: an aranchini, a mini Cuban sandwich, and a tart shell filled with truffled robiola and a pine nut.

Cru Valentine's: 693 simapticillian stars 2006

The robiola tart is awesome, when I pop into Cru for a drink and they ask if I would like anything to eat, without fail I ask for a platter of these so far, no luck, but I'll keep trying.

Cru Valentine's: 693 simapticillian stars 2006