While no type will necessarily be revolting in a watermelon salad at your next picnic or cookout, it's commonly thought that this type of feta is best.

Sheep’s milk, the proteins are more digestible. All milk has lactose, but when you make cheese, it breaks it down as well. I know a number of people handle the sheep cheese well.

Thomas estimates that figure is today up by about 100 farms. But because North American sheep have historically been bred to produce wool and meat, not milk, production has remained low.

Driftless fresh sheep milk cheese was her first, and continues to be her favorite. Yet this year, the spotlight is on her Ocooch Mountain, a cheese inspired by another of her favorite cheeses made ...

Generally, lactation cycles are seven months for sheep and 10 months for most goats. Milk volume decreases dramatically toward the end of the cycle, stopping altogether in winter.

Sheep farms were common, and sheep’s milk was plentiful, so pecorino cheese became one of the most common types of cheese made during this time. And very little has changed today.

A pricey bit of sheep’s milk cheese was actually made from cow’s milk, fish labeled smelt was really Japanese anchovy, and venison dog treats were made from beef.

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Mutton Button, a petite sheep's milk cheese from New York. Food styled by Ben Wiser. Event on 5/6/04 in San Francisco. Craig Lee / The Chronicle ...

Named in honor of Wojswol’s former famous neighbor in Califon, James Gandolfini, the cheese came to be when he had 1,600 extra pounds of sheep’s milk and didn’t want to freeze it.