“With fresh cheese you shouldn’t really ever have that ‘goaty’ taste, like you’re licking a buck,” says Tamara Hicks, who supplies cheese to Michelin-starred restaurants.…
Holding a baby lamb may seem simple, but in fact involves an escalating battle of instincts.
Despite Tomales Farmstead Creamery being a relative newbie – at least compared to the 100-year-old cheesemakers on the scene – it has won competition medals from the American Cheese Society and the Good Food Foundation, a San Francisco-based organization that fetes the nation’s organic and sustainable producers. The farmstead’s Atika, a Manchego-like aged cheese named after the Coast Miwok word for “two,” is a regular winner.
The farm handles all of its veterinary work in-house, which is no big deal for Jablons, a thoracic surgeon at UCSF. Years ago, one of his patients was a“He had an infected, destroyed right lung, and we operated on him,” he recalls. “The joke was, ‘Well, what are we going to do when this gorilla wakes up? You better have good sneakers.’”
“People see the dog and say, ‘That’s a nice life. He doesn’t do .’ But you forget: They sleep during the day. They work at night,” says Jablons. Among the predators the farm faces are coyotes – good fences keep most of them out – and mountain lions, one of which stole in a few years ago. It killed all the black-colored young animals, for some weird reason.
“You might see a sheep upside down and say, ‘Oh my god, how am I going to save the sheep?’” says Jablons. “You don’t want to try to pick it up and embarrass yourself. But then you” – he mimes clutching it and flipping it over – “and it only weighs like 14 pounds. They’re all fluff.”
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