This is a real bugaboo of mine, how to keep that 'just baked taste', and how to revive it to that fresh texture. To store fresh bread, leave it at room temperature in a paper bag, or if cut, leave the cut side down on a bread board or shelf. The crust will stay firm and the inside soft.
After two days, you may wrap it in a plastic bag to maintain freshness. To refresh the loaf, sprinkle or mist lightly with water and place it in a preheated 400° oven for 6-8 minutes or until crusty. You may also choose to slice and toast the bread for delicious results.
Freezing: Breads also freeze well wrapped in plastic, then wrapped in foil. Defrost at room temperature inside the plastic, then refresh as described above before eating.
Refrigerating and microwaving bread is not recommended.
Leni
Both are powerfully flavor cheeses, and either or both are frequently used as the sole Cheese in most American homes, you will find Parmigiano (Parmigiano-Reggiano, the official imported name, as produced in Bologna Italy) the more popular by far because of the commercialization by Kraft (GAG), but in Italian households, especially those from Italy, you could start a vendetta, and put generations at risk saying that either are better!!
Romano, (Pecorino-Romano comes from just outside beautiful Rome) generally much firmer and a bit more stingy, was used exclusively in central, and southern Italian homes, as it was considered a pasta cheese, and had a romantic story connected to it, something about a rivalry between two very handsome Italian men, (as if there were any other kind, but I digress from my digression) for the hand of a beautiful and warm, Italian woman, ...(nope, I'm not going there) Elisabetta!
Guiseppe, the son of a very wealthy banker, and the son of a modest dairy farmer named Paolo.... to make a long story short, the poor kid brought the parents of Elisabetta a basket of assorted Romano cheeses, and won their approval take their daughter's hand, (not a very good deal on poor Paolo's part IMHO, what in the hell are you gonna do with only a hand anyway...?) and ended (gulp, been there done that) with their marriage, Guiseppe, got the younger sister ...(He lost? What must she have looked like...yikes) Now it could have all changed if Guiseppe would have brought Dad a Ferrari, 456M GT 2+2 GT sports car, but I think he was much better off keeping the car, and by now wishes he would have driven off to Rome with it empty!! That's my story, and I'm sticking to it!!