Costanzo Carta takes a big knife, cuts into a chunky wheel of tawny cheese and there they are, white and wriggling in a lively fashion: maggots. “Try it, it won’t do you any harm,” he says ...

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The maggots eat the cheese, they digest it, they poo it out and it becomes creamy.” He admits though that it is something of a “niche product”. “It’s a tradition that is in decline.