New venture--old farm.
Cheese lovers in western North Carolina have just received an unexpected boon. Fullam Creamery, with its newly opened on-farm retail store, will provide fresh Hispanic-style cheeses made from top-quality cow's milk from the Fullam family dairy. These cheeses will be the only locally-produced traditional Hispanic cheeses in western North...

Feast to thanks: celebrate the season with a Thanksgiving spread that's as easy as it is elegant.
If there is one holiday when it's great to be a vegetarian, it's Thanksgiving. After all, it started as a harvest celebration, held to appreciate the bounty of the fields. To this day, everyone's Thanksgiving dinner is heavy on the veggies, from melt-in-your-mouth sweet potatoes to good...

Fresh cheese.
Talented cheese-makers from Washington, Colorado, Oregon, and California are leading the charge to revive the traditional farm staple of fresh cheese. Very young and unripened, fresh cheeses do not get better with age and must be eaten soon after production--all the more reason to seek out their fleeting charms....

SMC posts 15% hike in net profit at P4.36 B in 1st half.
Byline: JAMES A. LOYOLA Asian food and beverage giant San Miguel Corporation (SMC) reported a 15 percent jump in profits for the first half of the year to P4.36 billion. The firm said in a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) yesterday that it...

Cringe binge: more media bloopers and ephemera.
It's time once again for another roundup of typographical errors, linguistic lapses, and other amusing oddities in the news. First, some recently heard broadcast items. On National Public Radio (January 12, 2005), a reporter opined that a government official announcing new dietary guidelines "sometimes sounded like an...

Milk cheeses.
The effect of freezing on the proteolysis and shelf life of caprine milk cheeses has not been extensively studied. So, scientists wanted to determine the effects of freezing and thawing on changes in the protein moieties of plain soft and Monterey Jack (MJ) goat milk cheeses. They...

Market ripens for cheesemakers.
Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard COQUILLE - There's money in cheese. The trick is knowing how to make it. The cheese, that is. The money will follow - provided the maker can appeal to the right market, said an expert cheesemaker at a workshop in...

ENTREE NOTES.
Byline: The Register-Guard Garden Clubs TUESDAY Eugene Garden Club - 1 p.m., club headquarters, 1645 High St. Sheila Klest of Trillium Gardens will talk about native plants of the Northwest and share ideas on plant groupings. Free and open to the public. 746-2461...

The real life Good Life.
IN THE 70s BBC SIT-COM, The Good Life, Tom and Barbara Good decide to turn their backs on consumerism and the daily grind, and live self-sufficiently on their suburban block. Over two decades later and half a world away, Linda Cockburn, her partner Trevor and son Caleb decided to...

SMC to grow National Foods cheese business.
Byline: JAMES A. LOYOLA San Miguel Corporationas dairy subsidiary in Australia, National Foods, Ltd., is aiming to grow its specialty cheese and gourmet food division into a A$200-million business by 2007. A leading player in Australiaas gourmet food category, National Foods has generated an estimated...