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Parmesan cheese

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noun

  1. a hard dry cheese made from skimmed milk, used grated, esp on pasta dishes and soups

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For the first time more than half of Parmesan cheese was exported, as Italy's population declines and consumers watch their spending, producers said Thursday.

From Barron's

They even have Parmesan cheese and olive oil in the clubhouse, where Pasquantino also gives a bottle of wine to the MVPs of the game.

From The Wall Street Journal

Matijevich also makes a white sauce with béchamel and Parmesan cheese.

From Salon

Ms. Moyer-Nocchi devotes much attention to a recipe for macaroni with Parmesan cheese in Elizabeth Raffald’s 1769 manual “The Experienced English Housekeeper,” but the book itself receives neither a reference note nor an entry in the bibliography.

From The Wall Street Journal

"We will no longer have 'Parmesao' competing with Parmesan cheese," Italian agriculture minister Francesco Lollobrigida said on Wednesday.

From Barron's