Provolone (sharp/piquant), aged for a minimum of four months and with a very sharp taste, to "provolone dolce" (sweet) with a very mild taste. In "provolone piccante", the distinctive piquant taste is produced with lipase (enzyme) derived from goat. The "Dolce" version uses calf's lipase instead. Both "provolone valpadana" and "provolone del Monaco "(from the Naples area of Italy) have received the DOP (Protected Designation of Origin) seal from the European Union, meaning no country other than Italy may legally produce a cheese called that. In Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia and Uruguay, small discs of locally produced pulled-curd provolone of in diameter
What Is Life During the verses, Gordon moves to a square, Motown-style beat – or "rock-steady Northern soul backbeat" in Leng's words – before returning to the "galloping rhythm" of the more open, "knockout" choruses, and the song is driven equally by Badfinger drummer Mike Gibbins' powerful tambourine work. On "What Is Life", Spector provided what music critic David Fricke terms "echo-drenched theater", in the form of reverb-heavy brass, soaring strings (arranged by John Barham) and "a choir of multitracked Harrisons". The vocals and Barham's contribution, along with a brief slide-guitar commentary from Harrison over the final verse, were overdubbed at Trident Studios,