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First Aired - 01/17/2010 02:30PM
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This week on Cutting The Curd, Anne talks with Conrad Hosier & Sarah Zebrowski about sourcing and distributing artisan cheese.
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Cutting The Curd Introduction: Stories of Cheese Discovery (14:51)
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Cutting The Curd, Anne Saxelby, Heritage Radio Network, Hearst Ranch, Conrad Hosier, Chase & Co, Sarah Zebrowski, Columbia Cheese, distributing artisan cheese, Swiss cheese, fondue, pizza, small organic kitchen in Pennsylvania, French Culinary Institute, Steve Jenkins, Artisinal, Murray's Cheese Shop, Columbia Cheese is an importing company, Conrad was a sports teacher, Formaggio Essex Market, southern Switzerland, pasta, France, Italy, England, Neal's Yard Dairy, dairies, farmstead means that milk comes from the farmers own herd,Anne, Conrad & Sarah Taste Some Cheeses (19:05)
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Cutting The Curd, cows milk, tasting notes, strong cheese, as it ripens the bark penetrates the paste, mountain cheese, altitude is 700-800 meters, wine, sweet wine from Sicily, Swiss cheese makers gained freedom to make whatever they want 15 years ago, voltzen cheese, burnished rinds, aged ten months, toasted coconut, Switzerland, milk, bark, how does a cheese get from a producer to a plate?, happens quite quickly, Larkin, custom bonded warehouse,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/03/2010 02:00PM
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Anne Saxleby is joined by friend and cheese monger Dr. Diane Stemple to recap the decade in cheese.
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Cutting The Curd Introduction: (19:29)
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pyschology, Cosmopolitans, Cosmos, Artisinal, thistle, ogleshield, www.murrayscheese.com, Cutting The Curd, Anne Saxelby, Hearst Ranch, Dr. Diane Stemple, Port Washington, Sex & The City, Mark Shay, Peter Kindel, end of the decade, Cardo by Mary Holbrook, raw milk, goats cheese, Neils Yard Dairy, 3D cheese, Michael Lee, aged goat cheese, grain mold, Rogue River, Murrays,Top Ten People In The Cheese World (14:16)
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top ten people in the cheese world, live call in question, organic dairy products, antibiotics, organic grain, certified organic, in the cheese world organic does not mean quality, artisan cheese making in France, Randolph Hodgson, Mateo Kehler, Jasper Hill, cellers, Anne Saxelby, she is a rock star in the American cheese world, Essex Street Market, all American cheese mostly from the East Cost, one foreign cheese, Deborah Dickenson, Rob Caufeld, Steve Jenkins, Rob Kaufelt, Max McCalman, The Cheese Plate, Mike Gingrich, Judy Schad,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/06/2009 03:30PM
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This week, Anne Saxelby is joined by two very special guests. Anne Mendelson & Mary Habstritt join the show for a special one-hour discussion on the history of milk trains, milk quality, and the bottling process.
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Cutting The Curd Introduction With Anne Mendelson (12:38)
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Anne Saxelby, Anne Mendelson, the history of dairy in the city, Picnick, Will Goldfarb, milk trains, different methods of distribution, milk wasn't always this fresh, once milk leaves the animal it is colonized by local bacteria, milk goes sour within a matter of hours, milk was more resistant to unfriendly bacteria invasions, Josephine Baker, child hygiene hero of the New York City Health Department, there used to be a pure milk diet for newborns, we still believe there is something special with fresh milk, milk is not easily digested by many adults, mother's milk, lactase, lactose, a few mutant populations retain lactase resistance through adulthood, Northwestern Europe, North Sea, Great Britain, ability to digest milk as an adult, third world countries are adapting to fresh milk, yogurt, supermarkets there sell milk alongside yogurt, milk in China comes from Australia, fresh un-soured milk is superior for children, cow’s milk, availability of milk in China, sour milk was considered a deadly poison,Mary Habstritt Talks About Milk Trains & The Clean Milk Movement (18:53)
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Milk Trains, Mary Habstritt, people used to have cows in the city and raise them communally, originally people transported milk with open containers on wagons, milkmen, as farmers moved farther away, things change, whiskey distilleries marketed leftover grain as cattle feed, cows are meant to eat grass, ruminant animal, dairymen would color the milk with chalk, death rate was 96.2 per 1000 children under the age of 5, this number jumped to 136 during the summer, by 1906 the death rate fell to 55, 62.7 in the summer, pure milk movement, checking bacteria levels in milk, consumer push to impose quality standards, patchwork of city ordinances, lack of access to fresh food for lower income families, clean milk, parallels with rest of food supply, cheese and butter, low income recent immigrant, supply at home, inspection took too long, moving milk, Eerie Railroad, fewer than 10 cows, antique stores, decor, 300 cans per car load, illegitimate ways of keeping cows in cities, cows were stabled outside of the distilleries, stay at home mothers used to pasteurize at home, led to industrialization, licensing traders, Lake Eerie,More On Milk Trains (14:19)
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Sheffield Farms, 150 cows was a big herd, industrial operation, New York & Harlem railroad, the first milk train carried milk to the city in 1832, New York Central, steamboat business, build transportation empire, tycoon, sugar, Electra Havemeyer Webb, transportation and dairy connected by the cosmos, crossing the river was difficult due to weather, spoilage, nobody wants sour milk, trains were fast, creameries, kept milk cans in ice water tanks, milk trains had priority over all other trains, railroad worker strikes, milk travelled as far as 500 miles, New York City used milk trains up until the 1960's, West 125th st pasture still stands, 12,000 dairy stores in the city, stables, restrictions on rubber and gasoline, horse and wagon, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Grand Central Terminal, Lyla Vanderbilt, controlling what is made and how it's moved, train line direct to Manhattan, with milk, timing is sensitive, West Side Rail yards, horses were used right up till the 20th century, Shelburne Farms,Milk: What's In The Bottle? (13:25)
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urban populations, dairy business, supermarket shelf milk, you don't see the milk itself, only the carton, people used to judge milk by how creamy it was, whole milk was thought to be the most nutritious, skim milk, droplets of milk fat, glass bottle, deep cream lines, niche marketing and profit, homogenize, nostalgia, opaque containers, the demise of milk trains, truck based deliveries, suburbs, World War II, road improvements, interstate highways, delivery trucks could move as fast as trains, trucks promise door to door service, one of the last milk trains ran in 1952, Columbia University, repurposed buildings, warehouses, milk processing plant, West Side Improvement, Riverside park,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
