Did you know that real mozzarella cheese is made from water buffalo milk?
12"This is the original mozzarella, and it can only be made with buffalo milk," says Fading D Farm co-owner David DiLoreto. Along with his wife Faythe DiLoreto, they’ve been operating their Italian Mediterranean Buffalo creamery since January 2016. Not to be confused with the American bison, their 64-acre Rowan County-based water buffalo farm is one of only a handful in the entirety of North America.
Their love of traditional mozzarella began in 2011 after a family trip to their ancestral home in Italy. Upon their return to the states, they discovered that there were only five producers of the cheese in the whole country and none even remotely close to North Carolina. Since "mozzarella di bufala", as it’s known in Italy, is intended to be consumed fresh, they were unable to find the cheese they came to love. Undeterred, they decided they would make it themselves. With their kids leaving home and seeking a new way to spend time together, the DiLoretos began what would become their life as cheesemakers.
While mozzarella in the US is almost exclusively made using cow’s milk, this cheese is still produced nationwide in Italy using Italian Buffalo dairy. Indeed, if you were to buy what we know in America to be mozzarella, in Europe it would be sold as "fior di latte". This is because, in the entire European Union, the word mozzarella can only be used if the cheese is made with buffalo milk.
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