Who Makes Artisanal Queso Oaxaca? Who Produces the Milk?
Sometimes the heavens smile on you. Last week I was in the bustling and prosperous small town of Silao about 15 miles south of Guanajuato in Central Mexico. After circling…
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Alex just posted this link to a terrific video of Oaxaca cheese being made in (I assume) the food science lab at Chapingo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQo-gyzRNo0. [Edit]. The former link no longer…
Read moreMore Tangled than a Oaxacan Cheese: More Detective Work
Was Oaxacan cheese developed from mozzarella-making techniques introduced to Mexico by Italians? And was this in the 1950s? I’m still mulling this over. In and of itself it’s perhaps not…
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