THE MOOOS would like to wish everyone a Happy Mooo Year and hopes everyone has a special Valentine’s Day!!! Water Beds for Cows -Not just an amoosing idea! A Dutch rubber factory is producing water beds for cows. The cows were initially wary of the water-filled mats, which can be filled with hot water for extra pampering! But once the animals were persuaded to hop on, they didn’t want to get off. Comfortable and happy cows produce more milk according to a study by a farmer from England. "Cows can be compared to top athletes: under the best of circumstances they will give their greatest performances." Water beds for pigs, horses and sheep are under consideration. Thank mooo S.F. Chronicle and Reuters for this cow bit. HELP NEEDED! CCBA conference committee is looking for silent auction items. Big and small will be happily accepted. The proceeds will benefit the Doug Johnstone Scholarship Fund for Dairy Science Students. Please contact Joanne Mesta at 415.259.1640. The auction will be at CCBA Annual Conference April 10-12, 1997. See you there! WONDERFUL MOOOS!! The CCBA helped with video footage to produce a pilot show geared for children called "COOK WITH ME". It will be shown at the conference in April! It is wonderful and CCBA had a BIG part in it. Your Executive Director is very proud of this public service! |
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The Newsletter
of the California Cheese & Butter Association
Volume 3 Issue 3 February, 1997 CONSUMER EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY! The Osteoporosis Center is working on a book to target women and children’s education about calcium and bone strength. They need cheese recipes. Brand names are fine! Please send your recipes and any helpful information to : Elizabeth Robbins Please do not leave this in your mail pile! Send in something today. We need to educate consumers and this book will help our consumption! UNMOOOSUAL REQUEST! Tomas Kocabek has been a cheese label collector since the age of 12. He is now 25 and has 13,000 labels! Anyone that would like to add to his collection, please send to: Tomas Kocabeck Please feel free to call our office for any reason. California Cheese &
Butter Association I will gladly take suggestions, articles, information and jokes for this newsletter. Radha Stern California Cheese & Butter Association Convention will be April 10-12, 1997, at Silverado Country Club, Napa, California. Mark your CALENDAR!! |
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MEMBERS! In addition to the eleven new members we reported last issue, we have more! WELCOME
to Raskas Foods, Inc. of Aptos, CA., Northern California Deli Magazine of
Sausalito, CA., Billings-Horn of Cerritos, CA., The Ambriola Company, Inc.
of Jersey City, NJ., Redwood Hill Farm of Sebastopol, CA., Gavilan, Kennett,
Roepke Food Brokers of Morgan Hill, CA., and Rondele Foods, L.L.C. from Long
Beach, CA. We look forward to your added enthusiasm and energy to the organization. BUTTER is a culinary treasure as old as King Tut’s tomb. It was "served as in a lordly dish" (Old Testament) .A jug of wine, a loaf of bread—and butter! 100-percent pure butter is produced today essentially as it was in King Tut’s time. We do, though, prefer butter made of milk from cows instead of camels or water buffaloes. In fact, it takes a whopping 21 pounds of fresh, wholesome cow’s milk to make each pound of butter. MAKING BUTTER TODAY
Thank mooo to the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board!
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DID YOU KNOW? Cheese and butter judges look for specific flavor characteristics. You can find acid, barny, bitter, feed, flat, fruity, malty, metallic, sour , whey tainted, yeasty, or lacking in flavor development! Judges also look for characteristics in body and texture. They can be close, corky, curdy, firm, gassy, mealy, open, smooth, translucent, and waxy.(Thank mooo to Bill Wendorf. University of Wisconsin, Cheese Grading Short Course) Also attend the CCBA Conference, April 10-12, 1997 for an educational experience in the world of grading.
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