Cheese slices 5 Traditional Cheeses of Sicily Teaser

Full episodes available at Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean and has a long history of traditional cheesemaking influenced by the Greeks, Romans, Arabs and Normans and of course the Italians. Will Studd looks at the many flavours of Sicilian Pecorino, and visits one of the last farmhouse dairies making a saffronflavoured cheese from ewe s milk, before finding himself in a Dickensian cheesematuring room that is several centuries behind the times.