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Food Science: What is Pasteurization?

Last week we talked about how milk is homogenized and what that means for its nutritional value. This week, we talk about a related issue: how milk is pasteurized and why!...

Food Science: What is Homogenization?

Kathryn's post about the cream on top of non-homogenized milk made us curious about what's going on with the homogenized milk most common in grocery stores. Let's take a look!...

Straus Family Creamery
Sonoma County, CA

If you've shopped at Rainbow Grocery or Bi-Rite Market, you've probably seen those glass bottles with the cream-top milk and creamer. Most likely, they came from Straus Family Creamery in Sonoma Coun...

Look! Shelf-Stable Organic Milk

Browsing through the organic aisle of our big-box grocery store the other day, we did a double take. Something seemed out of place. We scanned again, then found it: a familiar milk carton on a shelf. ...

Survey: When Do You Add Milk To Tea?

Recently, we got into a debate with someone about the correct time to add milk to tea; before or after steeping the tea? What do you think?...

Good Milk: Snowville Creamery

Here's a head's up for our Ohio readers. See that lovely logo on the milk carton above? Look for that - it will lead you to some of the best milk you've ever tasted. ...

Hot or Not? The New Milk Jug

So, have you seen the new milk jug yet? What? You didn't know there was a new milk jug? Indeed there is. But if you don't shop at larger retailers like Wal-Mart and Costco you may not have seen it yet...

The Slice: The (Raw) Milk Itself

You'd probably think otherwise, but raw milk doesn't taste too different from pasteurized milk. In its liquid form it actually shouldn't. Good raw milk should be as clean as - or, arguably, cleaner th...

Good Question: How to Make the Perfect Cafe au Lait?

All the coffe coverage has Cortney thinking about perfect cafe au lait... Any tips on how to make the perfect cafe au lait? Whether it was in Paris, Bilbao or Madrid, the ones I had in Europe were so...