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Cow Parade Lala ‘pastarán’ en León, originally uploaded by RightIndex.

Yesterday Lala, one of Mexico’s major milk producers, known for scattering life-size model cows around major Mexican cities, purchased National Dairy, the US company that owns the Borden and Dairy Fresh brands.

Here’s an interesting story on how Lala got going.
There is a saying in Gomez Palacio [...]

Food entrepreneurship is alive and well in Mexico. I am constantly amazed by the small start ups selling fruit cakes or home made flour tortillas or typical sweets or fruit liqueurs or crepes or cookies or, in this case, cheese. Penajamo, a small municipality (county roughly) in the state of Guanajuato in central [...]

When I arrived in the United States some considerable number of years ago, I was stunned by the dairy products. Stunned as with a stun gun, not with joyous amazement.
The only milk available was not just pasteurized but homogenized and had Vitamin D added as well. No lovely layer of cream rose to [...]