Balance of Food

For those who grew up on the green can of Parmesan cheese with the yellow K on the top, you may have burst out in laughter like I did at the grocery store recently. Kraft has a new product called Kraft's Grate-It-Fresh Natural Parmesan Cheese. The familiar green can shape is still there but it comes with a block of cheese and a grater inside the can. The product is difficult to describe, so follow this link to the product. While I have nostalgia for the green can, I have long since switched to fresher forms of Parmesan and its cousins Romano and Asiago. Even in my early 20s, I searched out a deli in the relatively small city where I lived to find a higher quality form of cheese. If you are glued to the concept of the green can, or you work for Kraft, this may be a wonderful idea. This food author loved it. Since I'm not going to try it, I offer this other point of view. I could almost imagine trying this product with the Organic Ragu, which I reviewed here. If I needed that level of updated nostalgia, the new green can would have worked out perfectly.