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Article: WE'RE COOKING
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- Chicago Jewish Star
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- March 24, 2006
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IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY, THE INFANT ZEUS and baby Dionysius were reared on it. Cleopatra of Egypt bathed in it to keep her skin supple, and today's luxury spas and beauty shops offer it blended into an extraordinary range of expensive soaps, body lotions and other beauty products.
The prized ingredient? Goat milk.
Today, goat milk also appeals to health conscious consumers, to those with allergies, and those with digestive problems.
It is a highly digestible dairy product. The curds are smaller and softer than in cow's milk so that the fat globules are more easily assimilated.
People allergic to cow's milk can usually tolerate goat milk, which contains only trace amounts of alpha s-1casein, the ...