Gazzarella

Mozzarella is not just made from the milk of buffalo according to Blog From Italy. In the southern Italian village of Rosaneto in the Basilicata region of Italy, they have cats, lots of them. An enterprising local entrepreneur, Franco Latitante, had a bright idea. Why not use cat’s milk to make mozzarella?

Putting his money where his mouth was, in a whisker he had set up Italy’s first, and so far, only cat milking facility where the cat’s milk is transformed into creamy mozzarella cheese

Federico Fantozzi is also a happy chap, seeing as he now has a new job as Rosaneto’s official cat catcher and milker. “Yesterday,”, he purred, “I caught seventy three strays. Most of them were pregnant females, and were attached to the cat milking equipment in Latitiante’s new dairy facility.” He loves his new work, but, as the scratches on his arms attest, it can be a little hazardous at times.

Latitante has even coined a name for this new mozzarella, he calls it “Gazzarella” (The Italian for cat is “gatto”)