Where there is Wool there is Way? Or maybe Yak Cheese ...
Read this wonderful story about an ethnic Tibetian community making Yak cheese in China with the help of US dairy experts so that they don't have to migrate to cities to look for work.
So now you know where the caption for this post came from.Everyone involved in the project is confident that there is a market for local cheese that can be blended into Chinese and Tibetan dishes.
Despite the factory's modest setting, there is a strong emphasis on hygiene and keeping the milk clean.
"If you've got a good product, you will have a market. But you've got to ensure good sanitation," said Marie So, CEO of Ventures in Development.
The cheese makers plan to install electric stoves, when the power is finally on. This would double their capacity, currently 20 kilos a day.
They are also investigating yak fibre as a secondary cash product, hoping that where there's a wool, there's a way.
Labels: Travel
posted by Mridula at 9:22 AM
8 Comments:
good post, as usual. reminded me of the days i spent in holland drowned in yummy cheese!
and what a headline to read this morning: Pluto is no longer a planet! Anyway, teachers and students have one less planet to teach and memorise resp. (drew a cartoon on this just for my blog)
happy ganesha festival to you all.
Very good post. I am linking it to my blog.
RK, thanks and your cartoon is wonderful. I am one of those people who can't even draw a straight line and passed the subject in school only because I was quite decent at others.
Thanks, Alka.
Hmm..cheese...I love cheese, but yak cheese? Good write up as usual Mridula.
dear all,
kindly visit this link:
http://bellurramki18.wordpress.com/2006/08/30/hit-the-headlines/
and take the HEADLINES QUIZ
:)
Yumm!!That reminds me!! My Hiking trip to Lachung Base Camp-Katao Peak(Sikkim).. we were treated to a special Tibetan dish!!
Mazeflour in Yak butter!! and chunks of Yak cheese to bite!! Trust me Yak cheese isnt anything like wat ur conventional cheese tastes like!! but i certainly ate the mazeflour in Yak Makhan!! U can replicate the taste of it by keeping the normal Shev that you get in shops soggy in some water for 10 mins!!
Thats their Daily Diet!!!
nice one,mridula..
And i'm sure there's a way..
well i am reading a book "World is Flat".. and this is another small example which proves world getting flatter with advent of technology (china firm.. US support. down the line may be japanese machines and Indian Software..)
pretty interesting....
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