News stories tagged with "cheese"

(12/26/11) This week, we're listening again to a series we produced this summer titled, "Farmers Under 40", a look at the new generation of young farmers in the North Country. The series also celebrates locally grown food: vegetables, fruit, meat and dairy. So, what can you do with raw milk, besides drinking it? Think cheese.

Inspired by Barbara Kingsolver's book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Todd Moe found it's pretty easy to make delicious soft cheese, with no special equipment and just a few key ingredients. He starts with a gallon of raw milk. Forty-five minutes later, he's got a softball sized piece of home made mozzarella. It begins on the farm...

(09/15/11) NCPR is media sponsor for Saturday's 7th annual Lowville Cream Cheese Festival in downtown Lowville. The event celebrates Lowville's distinction as home of the world's largest cream cheese manufacturing plant. Todd Moe spoke with Eric Virkler, Director of Economic Development and Planning for Lewis County, who says the event includes music, art, contests and lots of cheese cake.

(09/15/10) Workers at the Kraft plant in Lowville are focussed on one of their biggest assignments this year -- creating a cheesecake large enough to feed hundreds. They call it the world's largest cheesecake and it's one of the highlights of the sixth annual Cream Cheese Festival in Lowville on Saturday. Todd Moe spoke with Eric Virkler, Lewis County economic development director, about the festival. Virkler says there's other food, besides the cheesecake, along with music, art and a recipe contest.

(08/10/10) Our book reviewer, Betsy Kepes, can't stand the taste of most goat cheese. But, she thoroughly enjoyed Brad Kessler's new book Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese. It's part memoir, part how-to and part history.

(08/04/10) Cheese will be the topic of a series of lectures around the region this month. The authors of the new book, The Summer of a Thousand Cheeses, will share their love of cheese and what they learned during four years of research. Russ Hall and Peg Rooney met cheesemakers, breathed the aromas in cheese shops and made many different cheeses in their kitchen. Hall and Rooney were early fans of New York cheddars and cheese curds. They spoke with Todd Moe about their book, and what they call the "Adirondack Crescent".

(06/08/10) So, what can you do with raw milk...besides drinking it? Think...cheese. Inspired by Barbara Kingsolver's book, "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle," Todd Moe found it's pretty easy to make delicious soft cheese, with no special equipment and just a few key ingredients. He starts with a gallon of raw milk. Forty-five minutes later, he's got a softball sized piece of home made mozzarella... It begins on the farm...

(03/13/09) Darrel Aubertine's first big piece of legislation as chairman of the senate agriculture committee is dividing the farming community. The Democrat from Cape Vincent wants to restrict which products are labeled "real dairy". The target of the bill is highly processed dairy powders called "milk protein concentrates", or MPCs, that are imported from other countries. Aubertine wants to protect American dairy farmers at a time when the price of milk has plummeted. But critics say the bill will hurt more than help. David Sommerstein reports.

(02/26/09) Two brothers from Brooklyn have taken the first steps to buying and reopening the kosher cheese plant in Ogdensburg. Last week, the state shut down the plant after finding bacteria in the cheese. David Sommerstein reports.

(02/24/09) Last Friday, state agriculture agents shut down the kosher cheese plant in Ogdensburg. Agents seized more than 25,000 pounds of cheese deemed unfit for human consumption because of high bacteria levels. The agency is trying to find out where that cheese was sold. The plant was run by a California company, Ahava, which filed for bankruptcy. But it's owned by the city of Ogdensburg, after its former owner failed to pay water and sewer bills. The city wants to give the plant a new life, so it can save its 80 jobs and milk contracts for farmers. For our Story 2.0 series, David Sommerstein reports on the plant's history, and its future.

(09/30/08) Last week, Heritage cheese plant in St. Lawrence County closed, leaving 65 Amish dairy farmers without a place to bring their milk. The dairy cooperative that makes Cabot and McCadam cheeses is stepping in to fill the void. Agrimark Co-op is building community milk houses in Amish country. David Sommerstein reports.