Fontina Val d'Aosta (8 ounce) Review

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(More customer reviews)FONTINA VAL D'AOSTA cheese, sold by IGOURMET, is a tasty, raw-milk cheese. It is NOT the most tasty cheese I have ever had, (that place being rserved for Royal Port de Salut cheese, with Royal Havarti cheese being a close second.) But this fontina val d'aosta cheese IS tasty, especially when allowed to stand out of the refrigerator and on the table for a while.
This is a firm cheese, but it cuts easily with a sharp knife. The (I hope!), edible rind of this cheese has a nice, somewhat smoother flavour, and is of a texture comparable to bread with a very slightly-more-than-normal hardness, but still delicious and edible, nontheless. The cheese itself has a nice, but very mild flavour, and even though the ingredients do not list "liquid smoke", or anything smoked, in the ingredients, the very faintest of smoky flavour does come through -- at least to me. It tastes a like very lightly-flavoured Swiss cheese.
The ingredients listed for this cheese are simple: Unpasteurized milk, Rennet, Salt. The salt flavour is NOT apparent in the flavour -- but if you eat enough of this cheese, you will get very thirsty, which is a sure sign of salt in anything!
Unpasteurized, (or "raw") milk cheeses might -- if some at the "august and SO very learned" FDA have their way -- become illegal in the USA(!) Or so I have read on the Internet. This is the reason I bought this, and another type of unpasteurized cheese. I've never had unpasteurized cheese before -- so I wanted to sample it before it becomes illegal! Those "wonderful" fuss-budgets at the Federal Food and Drug Administration, (FDA), seeming are SO concerned about the welfare of the American people, that they fail to notice that unpasteurized cheese....and unpasteurized milk.....when carefully made, under sanitary conditions, does NOT kill anyone! I can personally attest to drinking (legal!) raw milk....which did not taste differently, as I remember, from pasteurized milk. Only it's supposed to have more nutrition. It stands to reason that, if unpasteurized cheese did kill people, much of France, (where Louis Pasteur was born!), and the rest of Europe, would probably be dead by now. But they aren't! Will unpasteurized milk and cheese kill only Americans, but not Europeans, then? Or is this just one more way our "beloved" Federal Government wants to impress their power over the rest of us -- their consituents, who voted these "PUBLIC SERVANTS", of ours, into office. (Will Rogers said that he wanted to "go down to Washington and see how our HIRED HELP is doing." And, in all reality, that IS what these "powerful" people really are...!)
A few years ago, visiting relatives in Canada, I came upon a packet of "Sweet N Low" artificial sweetener. Reading on the label that it contained CYCLAMATE, I threw it away -- because, in the USA, cyclamates have not been legal for at least 20 years, and I didn't want to injest anything that old. Then I rememberered -cyclamates are STILL LEGAL IN CANADA. Do cyclamates, then, kill Americans and not Canadians? Or is this just another power-play by American "Food and Drug" officials? It is all very confusing and disillusioning to someone born and bred in the (seemingly?) "land of the brave, and home of the free". Or is that actually, "the land of the slave, and the home of the thief?"
At any rate, I do hope our beloved FDA will never make unpasteurized cheese, such as this "Fontine Val d'Aosta", Italian cheese, illegal.
It's only cheese, true -- but if they take away our freedom to eat unpasteurized cheese....what next will they take away. Hmmm....as this IS Italian cheese.....maybe the Mafia DOES have a few good purposes, after all?

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