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The term "raw milk" is a bit of a misnomer, since aging for 30 or 60 days transforms both milk and microbe into something quite unlike a natural state. And, contrary to popular belief, there is little to no health risk associated with this delicacy: Documented cases of poisoning from raw-milk cheese are scant, even in France, where the unfettered consumption of absolutely acrid fromages au lait cru is a national birthright.
Given the immense number of Manitoba dairy farmers -- and the potential payoff of a high-end product -- it's a bit of a head-scratcher why more Manitobans aren't at least experimenting with artisanal cheese-making.
While it's easy to call Ontario-raised mutton "Manitoba lamb" and get away with it, raw-milk cheeses tend to be unique products that are impossible to sep...
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In Havre aux Maisons,we discovered Vincent Lalonde and his Piet-de-Vent Cheese Factory, regarded as a "flower" of agricultural revival on the islands. And this is where we met the gorgeous lady from Brittany who mooed. She and her friends provide all the milk for Lalonde's raw-milk cheeses. He sells to islanders and to 54 centres in Quebec.
After buying some cheese, [Beth] gathered several jars of Douceurs des [Iles] wildberry jam and Louis-Charles, a Cap aux Meules resident and our guide for part of the adventure, grinned approvingly: "Strawberries, raspberries, cranberries, and blueberries grow all over the place," the graduate student told us, and - proudly - his mother owned the business that produced the "confiture.
Perhaps the most "touristy" of the islands is southernmost Havre ...
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This is naive, as potatoes aren't the only regulated commodity in Manitoba. There are boards controlling the supply of grain, eggs, milk and other products and the support for them among the agricultural community depends on the farmer, his or her location and the commodity in question.
While artisanal production of everything from heritage breeds of chicken to raw-milk cheeses to heirloom vegetables is booming in Quebec, B.C. and Ontario, it remains in its infancy in Manitoba, despite our advantages in terms of soil and sunshine and arable land.
Agricultural policy, according to analyses by the likes of Michael Pollan and others, has led to a North America-wide obesity epidemic, the U.S. dependence on Middle Eastern oil and the destabilization of markets in developing countries. And th...
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The finest fromage in Manitoba is the raw-milk Trappist cheese from Holland, Man., 100 grams of which retail for $3.70 at De Luca's (950 Portage Ave., 774-7617) and other specialty grocers. Pair it with milder Madagascar green peppercorn cheese from Bothwell Cheese of New Bothwell, Man. A 200-gram block sells for about $5 at most Winnipeg groceries.
While chocolate doesn't grow on the Canadian prairies, try the next best thing as an after-dinner sweet: fair-trade, organic chocolates flavoured with made-in-Manitoba beets. Chocolatier Constance Popp (1853 Portage Ave., 897-0689) in St. James makes Manitoba red-beet chocolates finished with sea salt, pepper and caraway seeds. They sell for $2 a pop, if you'll pardon the lousy pun. You can also buy Manitoba maple bon-bons and chocolat...
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... the DPR by harmonizing the definitions for milk products and revising the existing identity and co...
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This month, the company's Hemp Bliss -- an organic hemp beverage and milk substitute that won the best-new-product award at a major U.S. natural products trade show last fall -- will be sold in Sobeys stores. It has become a staple, along with soy-based and rice-based milk alternatives, in local health food stores in the last 10 months.
[Mike Fata] has seen his company's wares featured on a U.S. network television segment on new health products. Manitoba Harvest was also front and centre last spring in a full-page Los Angeles Times article on hemp foods, headlined "Soy's new competition: hemp.
This doesn't taste at all like regular milk and the 'Original' flavour I sampled is not sweet, but if you have ever eaten hemp seeds, you'll immediately find the flavour of this beverage familia...
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..., cheese makers used very fresh unchilled raw milk. They ripened their cheese on wooden boards and us...