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GENERAL CHEESE MAKING BOARDS (Specific Cheese Making in Boards above) => Discussion => Topic started by: Sailor Con Queso on June 15, 2012, 02:02:14 PM
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On May 20, a 6.0 earthquake destroyed over 400,000 wheels of cheese in the Parmesan producing areas of Northern Italy.
Click Here (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/cheese-worth-250-million-euros-842832)
Click Here 2 (http://cheesemakinghelp.blogspot.com/2012/05/tragedy-for-cheese-makers-in-italy.html)
On May 26, a second quake of 5.8 hit just 36 miles east of Parma (the center of the universe for Parmesan). At least 17 people were killed in the second quake.
Second Quake (http://digitaljournal.com/article/325659)
I was in this area of Italy last Summer. Really sad.
One of my big cheese buyers tells me that they are expecting a shortage of real Italian Parmesan and that the price may go up by 50% or more.
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That is so sad, not just the loss of the cheese, or the devastation of the old buildings, mainly the loss of life and family.
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Hubs and I were in Venice on the 23-25 and never heard a word until we got back to Austria on the evening of the 25th. Venice just had a tornado a few days ago too. Crazy weather that rarely gets reported here in the States. Very sad happenings.
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Some of those wheels look salvageable.
I suppose many were, and more were not.
Something tells me a lot of people were eating free parm in the area.
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I would think they would find a gray market for some of that.
-Boofer-