Nota:
Some say:
Piacentinu Ennese appears officially for the first time in a text of Sixteenth century, attributed to the famous Latin historian Gallo, who described the characteristics and the productive processes of a cheese made with saffron.
Instead, according to a romantic local legend handed down during the years, Ruggero il Normanno, King of Sicily, watching his sad wife, ordered to a local dairymen to realize a therapeutic cheese. After some different experiments, the dairymen decided to add a small amount of saffron to sheep milk, creating a cheese with an unusual yellow color and with important energizing and antidepressant properties, at that time attributed to the Crocus sativus.
Regarding the origin of its name, as we can easily suppose, “Ennese” refers to the place of origin of this curious cheese, while there are many theories about the term “Piacentinu”. According to some hypothesis, it could be linked to the particular pleasantness of this cheese, while other theories link the term to the adjective “crying”, referring to the small spots that color the internal part, similar to teardrops.
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