Parco Regionale della Grigna Settentrionale

Stracchino Quadro, a fresh cheese, is obtained from whole milk and has a traditional square shape (20x20 cm). It is usually sold in quarters.
Although it looks like taleggio, it has a different size - usually lower - and texture - which, in this case, has a more compact center. Moreover, when it is mature, the texture preserves its rigidity and tends to dry up to the extent that it can be grated.
The cheese-making methods have ancient origins and probably date back to the first milk processing attempts: as a matter of fact, stracchino is the first product deriving from simple processing methods.