Art of Natural Cheesemaking
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sku: 10997539
gtin: 9781603585781
brand: David Asher
category: Cooking
description: \n \nIncluding more than 35 step-by-step recipes from the Black Sheep School of Cheesemaking\n \nMost DIY cheesemaking books are hard to follow, complicated, and confusing, and call for the use of packaged freeze-dried cultures, chemical additives, and expensive cheesemaking equipment. For though bread baking has its sourdough, brewing its lambic ales, and pickling its wild fermentation, standard Western cheesemaking practice today is decidedly unnatural. In The Art of Natural Cheesemaking, David Asher practices and preaches a traditional, but increasingly countercultural, way of making cheese--one that is natural and intuitive, grounded in ecological principles and biological science.\n \nThis book encourages home and small-scale commercial cheesemakers to take a different approach by showing them: \n \n- How to source good milk, including raw milk;\n \n- How to keep their own bacterial starter cultures and fungal ripening cultures;\n \n- How make their own rennet--and how to make good cheese without it;\n \n- How to avoid the use of plastic equipment and chemical additives; and\n \n- How to use appropriate technologies.\n \nIntroductory chapters explore and explain the basic elements of cheese: milk, cultures, rennet, salt, tools, and the cheese cave. The fourteen chapters that follow each examine a particular class of cheese, from kefir and paneer to washed-rind and alpine styles, offering specific recipes and handling advice. The techniques presented are direct and thorough, fully illustrated with hand-drawn diagrams and triptych photos that show the transformation of cheeses in a comparative and dynamic fashion.\n \nThe Art of Natural Cheesemaking is the first cheesemaking book to take a political stance against Big Dairy and to criticize both standard industrial and artisanal cheesemaking practices. It promotes the use of ethical animal rennet and protests the use of laboratory-grown freeze-dried cultures. It also explores how GMO technology is creeping into o…
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