Some people don’t want to know how the sausage is made. I instead do want to know how the mozzarella is made. So I went to visit A and S Salumeria in Millstone and asked the owner/cheese maker Anthony “The Big Cheese” Mannino how he goes about it. Not only did he demonstrate his family’s recipe that dates back 40 years over two generations, he told me how to pronounce “salumeria.”

Fresh mozzarella, once a favorite of Italian/ Americans has taken over in a big way for all of the mainstream in New Jersey. One night while we were dealing with a major snowstorm on my New Jersey 101.5 show, I asked listeners what they would do if I gave them a piece of fresh homemade mozzarella and the phones rang off the hook for over two hours!