2006-11-05 09:13:27 · 8 answers · asked by neils678 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
The difference is that pizza parlors use fresh grated parmesian...
So go grate your own...
I recommend...
Parmigiano Reggiano
FYI
The Italians are horrified by our usage of this, the world's most famous hard cheese. Here in the States it is thought of as purely a grating cheese. The rest of the world savours Parmigiano-Reggiano as a delicious, full-flavored eating cheese. It began life seven centuries ago in the Italian provinces of Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, part of Bologna and part of Mantua. Nature blessed this zone with the most idealistic cattle grazing land to create the unique milk from the "Zone Tripica". The local cheese craftsmen took it from there, utilizing a totally natural process that has not changed for 700 years. No additives, no machinery, no gimmicks. Just sweet, fresh milk in its pristine state, the artisan's ancient skills and then nature's own good time (aged from 18 to 36 months). What you see today is just what the knights, serfs, saints and kings of old ate!
2006-11-05 09:56:31 · answer #1 · answered by TheSearcher 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's probably the same kind. You think it is different because in the pizzeria it is in those little glass shakers with the chrome screw-on caps with the big holes. I bet if you put some supermarket parmesan in a shaker like that you'd see it was the same.
The packaging is everything.
2006-11-05 09:17:41 · answer #2 · answered by Kokopelli 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most supermarkets have a cheese section near their deli departments. You can get parmesan cheese or romano cheese there. I also saw that there is a new product out that is a block of cheese with a grater .... I haven't seen it in the store yet but my guess would be that it is in the dairy isle.
2006-11-05 09:19:40 · answer #3 · answered by mommymanic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to a cheese specialty shop. They'll have all kinds of parmesan cheeses, which are aged differently so the supermarket kind is mild, while restaurant bought ingredients tend to be more concentrated and richer in quality, texture.
2006-11-05 09:18:26 · answer #4 · answered by cami 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there r different kinds of parmesan cheese. i'm not sure where u can buy the pizzeria kind. sorry.
2006-11-05 09:15:17 · answer #5 · answered by Chaniqua 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can buy a block of parmesan cheese and grate it yourself or they sell the pizzarea kind in the spaghetti sauce aisle at the supermarket or go to an Italian market
2006-11-05 09:17:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The powdered stuff is crap, grate your own. It's actually real!
Other than that, see if you can buy pizzeria cheese from the owner. I was always happy to order in extra stuff for people as long as they paid me for it.
2006-11-05 09:19:57 · answer #7 · answered by chefgrille 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where I live they are both the same thing.
2006-11-05 09:14:55 · answer #8 · answered by Mommyk232 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋