to do a book about classifications and how you look at cheese and how you use f it in had a resident rather than being specific about taking a pound of something and putting it in a mixture and having that be the resident we decided to work with cheeses in classifications and if you understood how the chose was made it would inform you on how to cook with it >> right. >> so it was really what er7 trying to achieve. we teach you how to cheese is made by describing our journey. starting with fresh cheese >> n starting with milk. >> starting with milk of

course, we both came from background that concentrated on grirnt we've developed relationships with farmers and producers in the restaurant where we were that really contained on working with good sustainable mostly organic ingredients when albert was able to take the family farm which was the straus family dairy albert transitioned that dairy that was traditionally to organize garlic he was the first organic dairy west of the mississippi it took place in 1992. >> you have to learn holistic medication to keep them height

he had to study how to grow the crops and keep the land in organ garlic compliance so lucky will i he's brilliant. >> he's brilliant but also there was this little group of farmers out there and one of the most notable is warrener and i know that probably most everyone has had something from weber's farmer farm there was a group started up and it was called the farmers growers group. and the whole idea behind that was to be able to get a group together to start a farmer's market in the raising but this group that got together was a dynamic group susan was one of

them albert straus and ellen straus started the los angeles police department trust it was a group about evolving the food world and trying to make it a better food world for all involved purifies living out there i moved out there in 89 and i thought we have to have a farmer's markets all those 0 great food but no access to the food i tormented the farm bureaucracy and skmd askedhe fat they said we have no farmers we have reefrjz they grow beef and cattle they didn't count warren weber as a farmer in restaurants cycle he was one of the most

important femurs we were starting from a very - and the first meeting i went to with the land trust the same people said we zoo don't have farms we have dairies they served powered mingle with the coffee this was where we started even though so much had gone before your story we look successful because we're at the ferry building, you know, (laughter) but it took us a look at to get to the point we are that actually cash positive probably about 9 years >> no 6. >> okay 6. and and then the food building has been a huge help for all farmers. our cheese chief you have to

taste that you've never harder of st. but maybe holbert farms by now there are there was a lot of the small produced heese a that's toil one thing experience for us. when we started sue started a marketing cop company from the region which was excuse me. a >> i said that. >> that's it. >> okay. then when we started making fresh cheese we made cottage cheese and cripple fresh. we had our

really a 10 gallon vateb( made cheese i and graduated to an oldge cheese that was wisconsin and that's a 2 hundred allon >> but actuaqó and larr 3 hundred gallon vat. but your production is were making only freshrvys b ou cma dairy place london. t okay. we'll buy a small production cheese for our cheese spt with fresh cheese but we're going to use albert's milk that's a traditional style shops in europe. and azft this point wev starte little boxes out so we had to o. making a bludgeoning and cream

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