Any healthy eater would love to eat not just any cheese, but goat cheese, any time of the day or day of the week. Being a soft cheese, however, you can’t keep it for long, and because the best quality are still made by artisans, you can’t buy enough and often. This means only two things if you want to continue having the benefits of this low-calorie, low-fat, easy-to-digest highly nutritious cheese: find an artisan near you or learn to make it yourself.
What’s an Artisan Goat Cheese
Artisan goat cheese is attentively crafted by hand in small batches. Artisan goat cheese can be bought from farmsteads that raise goats and make them into cheese. Other artisans that do not own a farm typically buy their goat milk from high quality sources. You can expect them to use organic goat’s milk derived from grass-fed goats. This makes the quality of the milk so much better than from those raised in CAFOs or concentrated animal feeding operations where unnaturally large number of goats (or some other animals) are confined or in captivity together to create more profit for the farmer. [Read more…]