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Article: A season to churn, churn, churn ; In a cramped garage in Maine, they're making a better butter
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 2, 2009
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OLD ORCHARD BEACH, MAINE - When most of his neighbors are
asleep, Dan Patry shuffles into his garage at 1 a.m., wearing a hair
net and elbow-length rubber gloves, navigating through a maze of
stainless steel pipes, tanks, and trays.
Where most people keep their cars, Patry churns out some of the
world's best butter, and he has the award to prove it. Patry's
brand, Kate's Homemade Butter, took top prize last fall at the World
Dairy Expo - the Oscars of the dairy industry.
Several times a week, Patry pumps fresh cream from local farms
into a 1950s-era circular steel contraption he keeps in the garage
under a modest raised ranch, and then churns it, slowly,
methodically, in small batches. ...