This cheese is really tipical of theValbelluna. In the past it was consumed mainly by the herdsmen and, together with polenta, it was the main dish of a poor but genuine cuisine.
Bastard of Mount Grappa is a cheese produced in the alpine pastures of the Mount Grappa since the early ‘800. The name (Bastard) derives from the fact that the Bastardo is produced when the milk...
In the collective imagination, the “Sponcio” corn represents the typical corn and therefore the typical polenta of Veneto’s mountains, with all the references that can be drawn from the uniqueness of the Dolomites’ environment.
Once the barley was cultivated in almost all the valleys of the Dolomites of Belluno, but today, unfortunately, the cultivation has been greatly neglected and resists only in small fields in remote mountain areas.