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I'm a raw milk enthusiast as many of you may know. The taste of raw milk is so much more complete than the taste of homogenized and pasteurized milk. I mean, it's whole, for one thing (you wouldn't want raw skim eww) which means there's cream. And for another... oh it's bliss! Bliss! It tastes like it came from a place you know? On my recent trip to CA where I bought a quart in a glass bottle (and drank it out of a paper sack in the park, no less) I tasted the following: sweet cream, grass, sunshine*, fog dissolving in the morning, honey, brown sugar, clean cedar wood, and right at the end...smoke. Sure, the naive and foolish among you might say "what about milk?" Well, it tastes like milk too, but it's a very complex flavor is all I'm saying! bryant park project has another unfortunate story about raw milk. Why's it unfortunate? Because the dadblamed thing is all about whether or not it's healthy. I don't care if it has miracle properties, it tastes better! Dang!
Also, the hype about it being dangerous is just nanny state bullshit—the only way to safely deliver raw milk is if the cows are pampered and raised organically on grass. Under those conditions, where they're not eating a lot of corn and swimming in their own shit, and being overmilked, you're simply not going to have the kind of low-immune-system, disease risking, blood in the udders kind of problems! But also in the sense that consenting adults should be allowed to eat and drink what they want especially with a product that was consumed that way for many many years before attempting to transport it to cities + industrialization made it so ruinously unsafe. (I am of a divided mind when it comes to feeding raw milk to my kids. let them make up their own minds later) I don't need anyone jacking me up about milk.
But this whole culture aching for miracle cures from our food, just makes me wheeze. It also makes me thirsty.
*sunshine also tastes a lot like edible flowers. there's this one daisy-like flower I've had as a dessert garnish which basically made me feel like I was eating sunshine. it was a bit of a synaesthetic experience. That same taste more or less made its way into this quart of milk I was having.
Also, the hype about it being dangerous is just nanny state bullshit—the only way to safely deliver raw milk is if the cows are pampered and raised organically on grass. Under those conditions, where they're not eating a lot of corn and swimming in their own shit, and being overmilked, you're simply not going to have the kind of low-immune-system, disease risking, blood in the udders kind of problems! But also in the sense that consenting adults should be allowed to eat and drink what they want especially with a product that was consumed that way for many many years before attempting to transport it to cities + industrialization made it so ruinously unsafe. (I am of a divided mind when it comes to feeding raw milk to my kids. let them make up their own minds later) I don't need anyone jacking me up about milk.
But this whole culture aching for miracle cures from our food, just makes me wheeze. It also makes me thirsty.
*sunshine also tastes a lot like edible flowers. there's this one daisy-like flower I've had as a dessert garnish which basically made me feel like I was eating sunshine. it was a bit of a synaesthetic experience. That same taste more or less made its way into this quart of milk I was having.
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but colorado has spoiled me.
then again,
so did growing up on a dairy farm...
OH the beatings for going to the barn before dawn to skim the cream off the top of the new milk!!!
good times.
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You'd have to go to the farm and even then it's hard because I hear tell people are a little reluctant. I've never bought any raw milk in Minnesota. It goes down a bit like a drug deal I suppose. There's some goat farms that will sell raw goat milk to you though. where (http://www.realmilk.com/where3.html#mn)
Raw milk cheese on the other hand: surdyks, wedge, whole foods all sell raw milk cheeses from all over the place. Then also for a treat go to st. paul farmers market: lovetree farmstead. Ask for the fish bait. I'm not kidding. Then, while you are fishing for fish, if some happens to fall in your open mouth, who can say?
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I used to spend my summers working on a dairy farm.
Oh the ice cream we would make!!
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They make ice cream, too, which uses mastic in the traditional Greek style apparently. The "chocolata fig" flavor is amazing.