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Article: A DYING BREED NO, NOT THE GOATS ... THE COLORADO GOAT CHEESE DAIRIES
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- May 18, 2005
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AT FIRST there were dozens. Then there were just four. And for a
brief time, it looked as if there would be only three.
Indeed, it's been a struggle for southern Colorado to hang onto
its goat dairies, which sprang up when Italian immigrants who came to
work in the region's mines in the early 1900s. In their heyday, 30 to
40 dairies supplied them with Italian-style goat cheese -- a hard
cheese and a soft ricotta, both very different in taste and texture
from the more familiar French chevre.
But over the years, as the U.S. government tightened regulations
on how the cheese was made, the dairies started going out of
business. It is only through the dedication and efforts of four
families in ...