Richmond Magazine / Get Your Pizza Fix: Cheese


When it comes to pizza cheese, mozzarella is the gold standard: Neapolitan pies make use of the fresh stuff, and low-moisture mozz stars on most other styles. That’s because its unique combination of moisture, fat and elasticity lends itself to the perfect amount of browning, blistering and bubbling when heated. Other cheeses make great additions, of course — ricotta, parmesan and provolone all come to mind — but mozzarella is the classic.

TAZZA KITCHEN sources cheese from Charlottesville-based BUF, which makes grass-fed, organic mozzarella in Colombia from the milk of free-range water buffalo.

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