Barlotti | Aversana Mozzarella 500g

Buffalo mozzarella from Barlotti, one of Paestum's historic dairies, raising buffalo on the fertile Sele plain since the early 1900s, almost in the shadow of the town's Greek temples. The aversana is simply the largest format of Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP: one generous 500g ball, porcelain white, with a paper-thin rind and a pasta of fine layered leaves that give it a lovely pull.

Made from the milk of buffalo grazing the plain, it carries that signature tang of lactic ferments: delicate, milky and faintly sour in the best way. This is a mozzarella for the table and for sharing, torn open at room temperature over tomatoes and good oil, or simply pulled apart with bread. Keep it in its own liquid until the moment you serve, and eat it as fresh as you can.