What are the key ingredients for a delicious classic pasta dish? An excellent tomato sauce and abundant grated Parmigiano Reggiano.
The Ortolina tomato sauce entered the pantries of Italian people in the 1950s. From that moment, Rodolfi Mansueto has produced many delicious products such as the fine and chopped pulp, the classic and rustic passata, the organic line and the classic tomato concentrates prepared to give more flavour to any tomato-based recipe.
Ortolina is the most famous tomato sauce, prepared with tomatoes, vegetables, olive oil, without dyes and preservatives.
It is simple and appetizing, just like the King of cheeses, which for almost a thousand years has been produced using the same ingredients: genuine cow's milk, salt and rennet, the wisdom of the cheesemaker and a lot of time for its ageing process.
This is why Parmigiano Reggiano is a unique product of its kind; it is a PDO product which can only be made in some provinces of the Po Valley: Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, Bologna and Mantua.
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Its history began in these lands in the 12th century, in the Benedictine abbeys between Reggio and Parma (the first dairies were born from those monasteries).
The Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium is a body created precisely to defend this millenary history from thousands of imitations all over the world; the PDO mark now makes it inimitable.
Each wheel is branded with the typical Parmigiano Reggiano lettering stamped in dots on the entire circumference of the wheels, and bears a stamp with the date of production and the number of the dairy: a real identity card that makes identification possible.