Mashable bites into a creamy, nutty, gooey, and sometimes stinky world during our first-ever Cheese Week. One of the food world's most maligned items is powdery, canned parmesan cheese.

A wheel of parmesan cheese can cost over $1,000 and has an average weight of 88 pounds, which means it cost over $11 per pound. Parmesan cheese is a big business for Italy. An average of 3.6 ...

But this time, we're flipping the script by taking the cheese to the outside, creating a sublime, flavorful, and irresistibly ...