Dairy Products

• At the large grocery stores (Sentry and Copps) in Wisconsin ("TheDairy State") the dairy shelves stock the usual varieties of milk (various flavors and levels of fat), cream, yogurt, and cheese. Very few of the products are from Wisconsin.
• At the tiny grocery near here(http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/my-jerusalem-neighborhood.html ), the refrigerator case offers all the "white" (as opposed to yellow cheese) and blue products I get in a large WI grocery. These are all produced in Israel and very fresh. In addition they sell local, fresh
• leben (the texture of yogurt, but a different culture and flavor)
• eshel (Kefir is sort of like eshel, but is that Wisconsin?)
• labaneh (sold at Trader Joe’s, not from Wisconsin) cows, goats, sheep and buffalo milk varieties; with olive oil and zatar or without; also sold as small (melon-ball sized) balls
• “white cheese”(http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/cheesecake.html ) in 3, 5, and 9 percent (like the Vermont Cheese and Butter Company’s Fromage Blanc and their Quark)
• really fresh cottage cheese in 1.5, 3, 5, and 9 percent (I can get one kind of fresh local cottage cheese at distant speicalty stores)
• solid Bulgarian cheese - cow’s, goats, sheep, and buffalo milk varieties in 0, 5, and 9 percent
• spreadable Bulgararian, 0, 5, and 9 percent fat, plain or with zatar and olive oil
• buffalo-milk yogurt (also goats and sheep, but I have seen that in WI)
• “salt cheese” in various forms (looks like farmer’s cheese but taste is milder).
• Jerusalem supermarkets offer a greater selection.
• Although the selection of local yellow cheese is limited, cheese stores like Bashar's in the shouk (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/abundance.html ) sell hundreds of varieties of imported yellow cheeses -- more than I have ever seen in Wisconsin specialty stores.
• I've written the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture to give them ideas for products new to them. No answer.

Copyright 2006 Jane S. Fox