| Lemma | Fossa Sogliano Cheese |
| Domain and Subdomain | Nutrition – cheese |
| Grammatical label | Noun, sing. |
| Definition | Fat cheese, variably aged, characterised by a high aromatic intensity due to the cheese maturation in pits dug into the rock. (1) |
| Note | Fossa Sogliano Cheese PDO must come from sheep, cow or high-quality mixed milk, belonging to livestocks of hilly and mountainous territories of Marche and Romagna. The shapes of the cheese are put into ancient pits, flask-shaped, carved into the rock to a depth of 3 metres. (2) Around mid-August,they disinfect the pits with fire and wallpaper them with straw, they put there the cheese, closed into jute bags and the pit is finally closed with sand and wooden boards. (3) After 80-100 days of aging, the cheese is taken away from the pit, traditionally on the 25th November, the day of Saint Catherine. It is used in the Emilia-Romagna and Marche cuisine as ingredient for the preparation of many recipes like the traditional “Fossa Sogliano Cheese PDO erbazzone”. (4) |
| Context | In Italy Fossa Cheese is used to accompany various dishes, especially pasta and first courses. It goes well with red wines intense and fine or sweet passito or with marsala. (5) |
| Phonetic transcription | [‘fosa so’ʎja no ˈtʃiːz ] |
| Synonyms/Variations | The Italian version “Formaggio di Fossa di Sogliano” is often maintained. (6) |
| Etymology | Cheese: old English cēse, cȳse, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch kaas and German Käse ; from Latin caseus. (7) The term “fossa” comes from the Latin fossa, derived from fodere, ‘scavare’. (8) (9) Sogliano is a territory of the municipality of Forlì-Cesena. |
| Product image |  (9) |
| Equivalents | ITA Formaggio Fossa Sogliano ESP Queso Fossa Sogliano FRA Formaggio Fossa Sogliano RO Formaggio di Fossa di Sogliano |
| Note of the equivalents | The name of the product is translated into different languages. |
| Organisation | Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento di studi linguistici e culturali |
| Date of the sheet | 06/08/2021 |
| Last date of change/modification | 25/04/2023 |
| Author Revisor | Margherita Baroni Gloria Zanella |
| Sources | 1) http://www.formaggio.it/formaggio/formaggio-di-fossa-di-sogliano-d-o-p/ 2) http://www.comune.sogliano.fc.it/formaggio-di-fossa 3) http://www.guffantiformaggi.com/formaggi/formaggio-di-fossa/ 4) https://www.qualigeo.eu/prodotto-qualigeo/formaggio-di-fossa-di-sogliano-dop/ 5) http://italiantraditionalfood.it/italian-regional-food-specialties/emilia-romagna/fossa-cheese/ 6) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=fossa+cheese&ei=JCgSYalj3_7v9Q-IyJmgAg&oq=fossa+cheese&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBQgAEIAEMgYIABAWEB4yBggAEBYQHjoUCAAQ6gIQtAIQigMQtwMQ1AMQ5QI6EQgAEOoCELQCEIoDELcDEOUCOhEILhDqAhC0AhCKAxC3AxDlAjoHCC4QQxCTAjoECC4QQzoKCC4QxwEQ0QMQQzoLCC4QgAQQxwEQ0QM6BQguEIAEOgsILhCABBDHARCjAjoICC4QkQIQkwI6BAgAEEM6CwguEIAEEMcBEK8BOgcILhCABBAKOggIABCABBDJA0oECEEYAFDn1AFYoPoBYPb6AWgBcAJ4AIAByAGIAZANkgEGMC4xMS4xmAEAoAEBsAEGwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=0ahUKEwiphf7n9KXyAhVf_7sIHQhkBiQQ4dUDCA4&uact=5 7) https://languages.oup.com/google-dictionary-en/ 8)https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/fossa1/ 9) http://www.formaggio.it/formaggio/formaggio-di-fossa-di-sogliano-d-o-p/ |
