According to a study published last week in online journal PLOS ONE, our hunger for rich, creamy Alpine cheeses may have begun as far back as the Iron Age. As Science Daily reports, a team from ...

Up above in the towering mountains of Europe, cow herders diligently follow a tradition called “transhumance” every year. At the arrival of early spring, when the blanket of snow enshrouding the Alps ...

Fontina ages in cellars for at least three months. But in recent years, many of the shelves have sat empty. In Italy’s Valle d’Aosta, I ducked into a tunnel carved into the side of a mountain. Once a ...