Cool, Creamy Burrata Is The Cheese Of The Moment

Top chefs have discovered the potential for great, simple dishes using burrata cheese (pronounced boor-RAH-tah), turning it into the celebrity cheese of the year.

Burrata looks like a ball of mozzarella with a topknot, but there is a surprise inside. On the outside, the cheese is the stretchy texture of mozzarella, but its creamy, soft, buttery center slowly and irresistibly oozes out onto your plate when the skin is cut open. It's like eating heavy cream, only better.

No wonder the cheese derives its name from burro, Italian for butter. It is a relatively modern specialty of Southern Italy, especially in the region of Puglia (the heel of the boot) created as a way to use the stracciatella ("scraps" or "rags") of mozzarella left over from production.

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