Going to the dairy seems so retro, but just take a taste of the milk from Ronnybrook Farms and I bet it will become a part of your future. Ronnybrook's milk tastes seriously better than the grocery store stuff sold in plastic bottles and paper cartons. Glugging truly farm fresh milk from a thick glass bottle into your morning coffee and cereal is so satisfying. Ronnybrook milk is a small way to indulge yourself every day. Best of all, their cows are raised without pesticides, antibiotics or added hormones.
Quarts of the milk are available at their store in Chelsea Market as well as at some farmer's markets and local retailers for $3 a quart in whole, lowfat, and skim plus coffee flavored and low fat and full fat chocolate milk. When you return the quart bottles, you get $1 back.
Ronnybrook calls their whole milk "Creamline" because when you look in the milk bottle, there really is a line where the cream rises into the neck of the bottle, leaving the milk below. This is because the milk is not 
Sadly, Dean & Deluca is no longer acknowledging the $1 bottle return rebate. Whole Foods sells Ronnybrook too and does accept bottles.
Dear Kitchen folks,
Speaking of milk, can you please address the nutritional consequences of ultra pasturization (as opposed to just pasturization)? I have read that it bleeds out all the naturally occuring nutrients, do you know if this is true?
Thanks
Oh, the Ronnybrook yogurt drinks are fantastic too. If they ever bottle lactose-free milk I'm so there.
I'm not sure about ultra-pasteurization, but the act of pasteurization itself reduces vitamins and nutrients.
To find out more info, check out one of my favorite sites:
http://www.realmilk.com/
hope this helps!
I remember learning that vitamins are also destroyed by light, which is why it's better for milk and juice to come in opaque (cardboard) containers. It's the same reason why beer is best in brown glass - clear and green glass skunks beer much faster. So that all said, I wonder how much it really is affected in the clear bottles.
Flavor-wise, ultra pasturization makes the milk taste more "cooked", less fresh.
Some organic milk is ultra pasturized to give it a longer shelf life, since organic milk often has a longer trip to market.
Has anyone tried Ronnybrook's coffee milk? I wonder why they carry coffee flavor as opposed to strawberry or another flavor.
I just had a question,
I am 35 years old and I'm always asking people if they remember the flavor of eggnog from 70's and early 80's, some remember some don't. Dairy Barn brand was the best to me back then. Back then tons of nutmeg wasn't added to the egg nog in fact there was no nutmeg. Today I don't know what these dairy company's did,
but there is no doubt in my mind that they know the original formula for eggnog of the 70's and early 80's, it was changed for the worse. and of course it had to be over money.
Today eggnog is pure corn syrup that is as think as molasses with tons of nutmeg added its horrible
Can you tell me what was changed and why it was changed