It’s an Italian style cheese made by Jody and Luisa Somers in Granville, NY. The cheese is rubbed with a mixture of tomato paste and olive oil which adds taste and acts as a preservative like wax with other cheeses. They sell the cheese every week in the Union Square Farmer’s market in New York City. I tasted it twice and then bought some. It’s delicious – nutty, smooth, full of character, and, most of all is made locally. The cheese is hand-made and the 35 Jersey cows are fed natural foods and milked twice daily to produce the best milk possible for this superb cheese.