Comments on: Recipe | A smokey panzanella https://www.jamesramsden.com/2011/05/17/recipe-a-smokey-panzanella/ Small Adventures In Cooking Thu, 19 May 2011 09:59:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: jamesramsden https://www.jamesramsden.com/2011/05/17/recipe-a-smokey-panzanella/#comment-2504 Thu, 19 May 2011 09:59:25 +0000 http://www.jamesramsden.com/?p=2574#comment-2504 In reply to Bethan.

How fascinating! One for Oliver Thring’s consider series I reckon

]]> By: Bethan https://www.jamesramsden.com/2011/05/17/recipe-a-smokey-panzanella/#comment-2475 Tue, 17 May 2011 19:01:13 +0000 http://www.jamesramsden.com/?p=2574#comment-2475 How odd, I’ve been learning about this cheese recently due to coming across a very unusual fly. In Sardinia, the larvae of the cheese fly are intentionally introduced into Pecorino Sardo to produce a local delicacy called casu marzu.

Now this cheese fly is fascinating – ok well I think it is. The fly larvae can skip across the cheese. The larvae accomplish their jumps by bending over, grabbing onto their bums with their mouth hooks, tensing their muscles, and quickly releasing the grip. Spring action propels them into the air. One man in the 17th century described them as being able to jump 24x times the length of their body.

I wouldn’t eat the cheese if it had the live larvae in it though because they can survive the acid environment of the stomach and then bury their way through intestines.

For some reason, I’m no longer hungry.

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