https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Cheese is serious business for Italians, and perhaps its most famous, Parmigiano Reggiano, had its best ever year in 2017, producing a record-busting 147,000 tonnes and generating €2.2 billion in sales. https://www.thelocal.it/20180424/italy-parmesan-cheese-profits Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:30:24 +0200 italy-parmesan-cheese-profits Two of Italy's most famous cheeses, Parmesan and Grana Padano, are being produced with milk from emaciated, sometimes lame cows kept permanently indoors, an animal welfare group said on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.it/20171125/italys-top-cheeses-products-of-cruelty-campaign Sat, 25 Nov 2017 14:19:20 +0100 italys-top-cheeses-products-of-cruelty-campaign In the early hours of Monday morning, police in northern Italy dismantled a criminal ring dedicated to food thefts. https://www.thelocal.it/20170321/italy-dismantles-crime-ring-of-food-thieves Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:27:39 +0100 italy-dismantles-crime-ring-of-food-thieves A spike in cheese theft has seen robbers make off with an estimated €6 million worth of Italy's prized Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese over the last two years. https://www.thelocal.it/20160401/italys-parmesan-thieves-nab-6-million-of-cheese-in-two-years Fri, 01 Apr 2016 13:23:15 +0200 italys-parmesan-thieves-nab-6-million-of-cheese-in-two-years Fed up with their banks' reluctance to lend, an Italian dairy cooperative has raised €6 million by issuing bonds guaranteed by huge wheels of Parmesan cheese. https://www.thelocal.it/20160204/cheesed-off-by-banks-try-parmesan-bonds Thu, 04 Feb 2016 09:45:44 +0100 cheesed-off-by-banks-try-parmesan-bonds Italian police have caught a gang accused of stealing parmesan wheels worth €785,000, in robberies that went on for more than a year. https://www.thelocal.it/20150925/italian-cheese-gang-rob-785k-of-parmesan Fri, 25 Sep 2015 12:24:42 +0200 italian-cheese-gang-rob-785k-of-parmesan The Italian consortium of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese makers is seeking legal action against the American pornographic website, PornHub, after the cheese was featured in a new ad campaign for the adult entertainment giant. https://www.thelocal.it/20150812/italian-cheese-makers-seek-legal-action-over-porn-ad Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:29:27 +0200 italian-cheese-makers-seek-legal-action-over-porn-ad Online sales of rip-off parmesan cheese alone cost Italy €60 million last year, an employee at the Ministry of Food, Forestry and Agricuture told The Local. https://www.thelocal.it/20150616/how-the-grate-online-parmesan-scam-cost-italy-m Tue, 16 Jun 2015 16:09:51 +0200 how-the-grate-online-parmesan-scam-cost-italy-m Exports of Italian cheese and dairy products rose to a new record worth €2.2 billion in 2014, as appetite for parmesan and gorgonzola grew in northern European countries, farm research body ISMEA said. https://www.thelocal.it/20150417/foreign-appetite-for-italian-cheese-spurs-sales Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:05:50 +0200 foreign-appetite-for-italian-cheese-spurs-sales Parmesan makers cried foul on Thursday over the huge scale on which the famous Italian cheese is copied in the United States. https://www.thelocal.it/20150305/parmesan-makers-cheesed-off-over-us-copies Thu, 05 Mar 2015 15:55:00 +0100 parmesan-makers-cheesed-off-over-us-copies The European Commission has announced an aid package to help cheesemakers hit by Russia’s embargo on food imports, a move greeted with “satisfaction” by Italy’s parmesan consortium. https://www.thelocal.it/20140829/eu-aid-for-parmesan-hit-by-russian-ban Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:58:00 +0200 eu-aid-for-parmesan-hit-by-russian-ban Italian police have seized thousands of wheels of Parmesan, after milk used to produce the cheese was found to be contaminated. https://www.thelocal.it/20140620/thousands-of-toxic-parmesan-wheels-seized Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:56:00 +0200 thousands-of-toxic-parmesan-wheels-seized