It wasn’t that long ago that goat-milk cheese was an exotic ingredient like truffles or caviar imported from far away, but now it’s almost become a cliché of California cooking. That’s not so bad, for ...

Kefir is a tangy, probiotic-rich drink made by fermenting cow’s or goat’s milk or water with a culture starter called kefir grains — small clusters of bacteria and yeast that resemble tiny cauliflower ...

Necessity is the mother of invention, and Shann Jones is a perfect example. She used goats’ milk and kefir to develop her healing probiotic drinks, soaps and lotions when her family suffered from ...

Kefir is a fermented dairy product made out of the milk of cows, goats or sheep. However, it can also be made from coconut, soy, rice, or almond milk. There is a common belief that it originated in ...

Every morning John Zimmerman of Kirchenberg Farm rises early to make goat cheese and tend the flock on his 36-acre spread in Richmond Township. He and his wife, Grace, own the farm, where they sell ...

Editor’s note: As part of a series on the Sonoma County dairy community, here we profile Redwood Hill Farm in Sebastopol, which for more than 50 years has produced high-quality goat milk products in a ...

Forty years ago, the U.S. was a goat cheese wasteland. Outside of Europe, goat cheese — not to mention goat milk, goat kefir, and goat yogurt — simply didn’t exist. But in 1978, a small farm in ...

Fermented foods have been staples in the human diet since the dawn of time, but lately, it seems that they're having a moment, with new products popping up on shelves every week. From kimchi to ...

In the world of fermented dairy, kefir and ryazhenka stand out as two of the most nutritious and versatile products, carrying the essence of centuries-old traditions. These cultured dairy ...