{"id":4642,"date":"2022-05-16T09:17:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T13:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=4642"},"modified":"2022-05-16T09:17:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T13:17:28","slug":"casu-marzu-the-worlds-most-dangerous-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/16\/casu-marzu-the-worlds-most-dangerous-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"Casu marzu: The world’s ‘most dangerous’ cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNN – The Italian island of Sardinia sits in the middle of the Tyrrhenian Sea, gazing at Italy from a distance. Surrounded by a 1,849-kilometer coastline of white sandy beaches and emerald waters, the island’s inland landscape rapidly rises to form hills and impervious mountains.\u00a0<\/p>

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And it is within these edgy curves that shepherds produce casu marzu, a maggot-infested cheese that, in 2009, the Guinness World Record proclaimed the world’s most dangerous cheese.Cheese skipper flies,\u00a0Piophila casei<\/em>, lay their eggs in cracks that form in cheese, usually fiore sardo, the island’s salty pecorino.Maggots hatch, making their way through the paste, digesting proteins in the process, and transforming the product into a soft creamy cheese.\u00a0Then the cheesemonger cracks open the top — which is almost untouched by maggots — to scoop out a spoonful of the creamy delicacy.It’s not a moment for the faint-hearted. At this point, the grubs inside begin to writhe frantically.<\/p>

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If you are able to overcome the understandable disgust, marzu has a flavor that is intense with reminders of the Mediterranean pastures and spicy with an aftertaste that stays for hours.\u00a0Some say it’s an aphrodisiac. Others say that\u00a0it could be dangerous for human health<\/a>\u00a0as maggots could survive the bite and and create myiasis, micro-perforations in the intestine, but so far, no such case has been linked to casu marzu.\u00a0The cheese is\u00a0banned from commercial sale<\/a>, but Sardinians have been eating it, jumping grubs included, for centuries.”The maggot infestation is the spell and delight of this cheese,” says Paolo Solinas, a 29-year-old Sardinian gastronome.\u00a0He says some Sardinians cringe at the thought of casu marzu, but others raised on a lifetime of salty pecorino unabashedly love its strong flavors.”Some shepherds see the cheese as a unique personal pleasure, something that just a few elects can try,” Solinas adds.<\/p>

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