It was often served with tomatoes in a salad. Whenever I travelled to Italy I would enjoy fresh mozzarella and tomato salads. I loved the fresh mozzarella in Italy and because it wasn't available in Dallas I founded the Mozzarella Company in Dallas in 1982. The former was developed in the USA to fit our transportion and distribution sytems, and it has been available in grocery stores for years. This is the cheese that the huge factories produce for the pizza industry.
Fresh mozzarella is different.
It is soft and moist and more perishable. Thanks to the craze for Italian food, high-moisture mozzarella is more readily available in the USA than ever. It is available salted and unsalted. No buffalo-milk mozzarella is produced in the USA because water buffalo milk is not commercially available here. All the buffalo milk mozzarella sold here is imported from Italy and South America.