Sour Milk: Lessons from Scandinavia

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Viili, piimä, filmjölk, skyr – all obscure mouthfuls of rolling foreign vowels – that mean but one thing: cultured milk.  The Scandinavians, whose ill-tempered northern climate necessitates creative application of food preservation techniques, celebrate  soured milks and cultured dairy foods in a manner unparalleled by even the yogurt-loving people of the Caucasus. Indeed, they thrive [...]

Milk Kefir: What It Is & How to Brew It

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Milk kefir is, to put it lightly, an acquired taste.   Sour and pungent, milk kefir is a cultured dairy food originally from the Caucuses – the region where Europe meets Asia.   There it has been traditionally heralded as an elixer of long life and health.   It seems that there’s wisdom in this [...]

10 Cultured Dairy Foods and How to Use Them

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Cultured dairy foods enjoy a long and vibrant history.   In every society that historically consumed dairy foods, cultured yogurt and other probiotic dairy foods earned a much-loved and much-respected place in the indigenous diets.   That place was rightly deserved, too.   While culturing milk and cream inevitably offered the practical benefit of enabling [...]