Crescenza cheese

Does anybody know if any cheese stores in Chicago carry Crescenza cheese?

And if not -- how is it different from Mascarpone? Is that an acceptable substitute?

Thanks

DougMose wrote:Does anybody know if any cheese stores in Chicago carry Crescenza cheese?

And if not -- how is it different from Mascarpone? Is that an acceptable substitute?

Thanks

DougMose,

I've never seen any cheese labelled crescenza for sale here but I have seen a related cheese, stracchino -- in some of the specialty/gourmet stores. They're both from Lombardy and are both soft, not aged all that much and both made with milk from cows returning from the mountains at the end of summer; I think crescenza is perhaps a subtype of or alternate name for stracchino. I've seen stracchino, I believe, at Riviera and at Fox and Obel, probably also at the Whole Foods on Superior. That's what I would use.

Antonius

Thanks, Antonius --

I figured you would know the answer.

I'll look for it at Whole Foods and/or Fox & Obel this weekend.

(I'm using it for a recipe from the recently published English language edition of The Silver Spoon -- a canape of radishes and whipped crescenza on toasted bread.)