If you see “stracciatella” on a menu and don’t know what you’re getting, you’re forgiven. The word, meaning “little rags,” refers to three different Italian foods: cheese, soup and gelato. All are delicious, but today we praise the first. Stracciatella was born in Puglia in the early 1900s, when Italians mixed scraps from mozzarella-making with fresh cream. You’ve got cream. You’ve got cheese. Do I even need to continue? Seasoned simply with sea salt and cracked pepper, Roberta’s stracciatella at Urban Cowboy is rich, stringy, cheesy, slurpy fun. Bonus fact: Burrata is just stracciatella wrapped in mozzarella casing
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