Re: Traveling and yogurt,also Canadian source of dry curd and goat cheese

[Guest guest]

We just returned from a 16-day, 4550 mile vacation with intermittent

refrigerators, and since I make my yogurt in an antique oven with a pilot,

taking my yogurt maker was not an option! A good cooler (we have a

extreme) packed with pre-chilled foods and topped up with a hotel-room bucket or

two of ice, will keep ice in it for several days. Yogurt cheese travels very

well. (So do sliced meats, a precooked and prechilled whole roast chicken,

bagged salads, etc.)

I found dry curd cottage cheese in Banff, Canada, at the Safeway in big

yogurt-type tubs. It was the Lucerne brand, which is Safeway's house brand (so

I am thinking that U.S. Safeways might be able to get it.) Bought all five on

the shelf and they made it home in the cooler just fine!

In the Okanagan Valley in Canada, south of Kelowna, there is an artisan goat

cheese maker with a wide variety of goat cheddars and a goat yogurt cheese that

is fermented very near to 24 hours. Perhaps they would guarantee 24-hour

fermentation if there were lots of requests. They do have a website and do mail

order...my purchased cheese came home in the cooler, too, but for internet or

mailorder, try www.carmeLisgoatcheese.com<http://www.carmelisgoatcheese.com/> or

write Carmelis Goat Cheese Artisan, Inc., 170 Timberline Road, Kelowna, B.C. 4J6

Canada, phone . It was a pricy $60 Canadian per kilo, but that meant

a piece 1 " thick and 4x4 " cost $6.72 Canadian.

Hope this helps someone.

Lorilyn