{"id":35200,"date":"2020-01-20T09:56:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T08:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.provolonevalpadana.it\/storia-del-provolone-valpadana\/"},"modified":"2024-07-09T22:29:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T20:29:56","slug":"history-of-provolone-valpadana","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.provolonevalpadana.it\/en\/history-of-provolone-valpadana\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Provolone Valpadana PDO"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The long history of Provolone Valpadana PDO. Italianity, emigration and raw materials of excellence<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The history of\u00a0Provolone Valpadana<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is the story of a traditional cheese, the result of the interaction, over time, of important factors linked to the territory: the geographical characteristics, the agricultural production and the history of the men who worked and lived there.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The\u00a0Origins of Provolone Valpadana<\/strong>\u00a0can be traced back to the period when the Cistercian monks took care of the vast operation of reclamation and channeling of rising and surface waters in the territory between the rivers Lambro and Adda.<\/p>\n

This innovation created the basis for the development of a cereal-zootechnical production system, oriented towards dairy cattle rearing and cheese-making, which spread from the original nucleus of the lower Milanese area to the whole Po Valley and then established itself as the main economic resource of Po Valley agriculture, leading to the birth of many\u00a0typical cheeses.<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Provolone Valpadana cheese<\/strong>\u00a0was born in the Po Valley around the second half of the 19th century from the happy union between the dairy culture of \u201cspun paste\u201d, coming from the south of Italy, and the dairy vocation of the territory.<\/p>\n

The history of Provolone Valpadana continued in 1861, when the unification of Italy made it possible to overcome the barriers between the different\u00a0areas<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of the peninsula and, therefore, the settlement of entrepreneurs from the south, who had transferred their production activities to the provinces of Piacenza, Cremona and Brescia. It is still today in these\u00a0areas<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that Provolone Valpadana is produced.<\/p>\n

This determined the spread of the culture and consumption of spun paste cheeses throughout the national territory. The Po Valley offers a great amount of milk suitable for cheese processing and also the necessary infrastructure to achieve quality production, which is developed in the Provolone Valpadana produced in very different formats (from a few ounces to over a quintal).<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The name \u201cProvolone\u201d appears in literature for the first time in 1871, in the \u201cVocabolario diagricoltura di Canevazzi-Mancini\u201d (Cappelli, 1871). \u201cProvolone\u201d thus means a large-sized provolone. A completely original cheese, distinguishable from the other\u00a0spun paste<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0cheese widespread in southern Italy because it is large in\u00a0size<\/strong><\/a>, able to mature for a long time, without drying out too much and therefore without becoming a grating cheese.<\/p>\n

The denomination of origin \u201cValpadana\u201d was introduced alongside the term \u201cProvolone\u201d in 1993 (DPCM 09-04-1993<\/u>), crowning a centuries-old tradition that has determined the characteristics for which the cheese is known and appreciated.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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History of Provolone Valpadana P.D.O. The long history of Provolone Valpadana P.D.O.. 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