A creamy, porcelain-white cheese, so rich that it’s just a short leap from butter, is an unlikely but effective symbol for Italian cheese in America. Mascarpone, elevated to fame through a gloriously ...

For those of us accustomed to monitoring fat intake, cheese often seems too much of an indulgence to be anything other than, well, a rare indulgence. Popular hard cheeses, such as Cheddar, Gruyere and ...