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Article: Cheers to Laura Chenel for great American goat cheese
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- April 19, 2006
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LET'S HEAR IT for Laura Chenel, the doyenne of American goat
cheese.
Without Chenel, you might never have enjoyed goat cheese crumbled
on a mixed green salad or spread on a sandwich. You might never have
had the option of a goat cheese pizza, goat cheese-stuffed chicken
breasts, or a goat cheese omelette. Goat cheese might never have been
available to quickly and easily dress up a souffle, a dip or a sauce.
It's hard to imagine, considering how ubiquitous goat cheese is
today. But 25 years ago, there was no such thing as American goat
cheese. What little we did have was imported, expensive and hard to
find.
Then in 1979, Chenel went to France to apprentice with Jean-
Claude Le Jaouen, the ...