CHEESE PLEASE - UDDERLY THE BEST
I just got my bag home and as much as I adore the wonderful fresh fruit and veggies, all I wanted to do was to rip open the package of Andrew & Everett provolone cheese I had ordered this week.
Wow! Was I impressed with the flavor of this cheese! I feel much better knowing that the cheese we can order from Then Neighborhood Garden is not full of hormones and supports small farmers.
Some impressive information from Tim Jones, the founder of Andrew & Everett:
- All milk sourced from small, self-sustaining family owned farms.
- All cows are free range, grass fed, and treated humanely with care and respect.
- No cows are injected with synthetic rBGH-BST growth hormones.
- No cows are fed animal by-products.
- No antibiotics are used for our dairy cows. If cows become ill and antibiotics are necessary, they are removed from the dairy herd.
- All products are third-party certified Gluten Free.
- No preservatives, binders or fillers are used in our cheeses.
- All cheeses are made with non-animal rennet.
- Certified Non-Clone Sourced
- All product claims are stated clearly on our packaging so consumers can purchase with confidence.
To develop a better cheese I believe one needs to first find out what makes cheese inferior to begin with. What the common consumer doesn't realize is that most cheese is made from milk that has too much age on it to be able to be sold in a liquid form in a bottle. Many cheese makers buy this distressed milk at a large discount to make cheese with. The older the milk is the more it denigrates or breaks down. This requires the cheese manufacture to put additives into the cheese such as binders and fillers. Fillers such as milk protein concentrate or binders like casein help to firm up the cheese made from older denigrated milk
Another concern is the use of rBGH (Bovine Growth Hormone) and BST (Bovine Somatrotropin) in dairy cows. Most consumers don't realize that these two hormones (rBGH) & (BST) are outlawed for the use in milk production in every developed country except for the United States and Brazil. rBGH is a synthetic, genetically engineered version of a cows natural growth hormone, used to make the cow over produce milk by up to 35%. This causes great stress for the cow and can greatly decrease a cow's lifespan, this in turn requires a significant increase in the use of antibiotics for treatment of udder inflammation or mastitis.
We have addressed all of these concerns in our ANDREW & EVERETT brand of cheese. All of the milk used in making our cheese comes from farms that produce milk solely for the production of cheese. Their milk is turned into cheese within hours of leaving the farm. The best tasting cheese is always made from the freshest milk. Making cheese this way eliminates the need for fillers and binders. None of the cows are ever given any rBGH or BST growth hormones. All of our dairy farmers are self-sustaining and it's just a core value not to practice the use of these hormones. The care and effort these farmers put into there farming is truly a family value. On most commercial dairy farms all of the cows are given numbers, our dairy farmers give their cows names!
All of our milk is hauled separately to the cheese plants. Under no circumstance do we ever commingle our milk with unknown sources of milk. All of the cheese plants must have separate milk silos to ensure our milk is kept apart from other milk. Our cheese is always a first run batch to further ensure no residue from other batches is mixed. All of our farmers and cheese makers sign an affidavit swearing to abide by our claims.
Our packaging facility is brand new. We have the latest state of the art slicers and packing machines.
So, who are Andrew and Everett? Tim's children? Maybe they are cows? I guess it is not that important, but what is important, is that the cheese has flavor, is not filled with yucky stuff and comes from a manufacturer with integrity.
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