| Our latest poll alerted me that a greater exposure | | | | Kunik is made by combining 75% goat milk and 25 |
| to domestic cheeses is needed. American farmers | | | | % Jersey cow cream that is provided by other |
| and dairy co-ops are producing exceptional | | | | local dairies. The varied and wholesome diet of the |
| cheeses that are winning awards and are able to | | | | goats along with the traditional farmstead |
| challenge their European cousins. This is my first | | | | production methods have yielded a unique and |
| blog review of an American farmstead cheese | | | | intoxicating cheese. It is a small lightly aged, triple |
| and I hope that it will shed a bright light on the | | | | cream, cylindrical, Camembert style cheese that |
| wonderful tastes and aromas that can be found | | | | has an edible bloomy white rind. The cow cream |
| with of our home grown domestic cheeses. On | | | | provides a rich buttery taste and texture that is |
| the next visit to your local cheese shop ask about | | | | wonderfully offset by the clean tangy goat milk. |
| the local cheeses that they carry and try one or | | | | The bloomy rind provides a layer of complexity |
| two to see what you have been missing. | | | | to the flavor and an aroma of aged wood and |
| Kunik is goat cheese produced by the Nettle | | | | mushrooms that is readily obvious. Kunik is |
| Meadow Farm located in Thurman New York. This | | | | available as "buttons" weighing between 7oz and |
| southern Adirondack farm has 100 lovingly cared | | | | 9oz and mini wheels that are + or - 14oz. |
| for goats that provide the milk for cheese | | | | The versatile Kunik can be served as an hors |
| production and the motto there is "happy goats | | | | d'ouerve drizzled with Lavender Honey and plain |
| produce great milk". We are told that the name | | | | crackers or on a dessert platter with fruits and |
| "Kunik" comes from an Eskimo word that | | | | nuts and also as a wonderful breakfast treat |
| translates into English as "snowball" and after you | | | | spread on a heated croissant. It is also provides a |
| see this cheese for the first time the name will | | | | elegant flair when added to baked potatoes or |
| prove to be entirely appropriate. | | | | brown rice dishes. |