What makes Farmers’ All Natural Creamery organic cottage cheese authentic?
It’s what goes into, or should we say, doesn’t go into Farmers’ All Natural Creamery organic cottage cheese that makes it authentic. When you read most ingredient labels today for cottage cheese you see a long list of words that you can’t pronounce or have no idea what they are – guar gum, xantham gum, locust bean gum, etc. These things are added to speed the process for making cottage cheese, create uniform textures, and/or extend shelf life. These practices are so universal one might think these ingredients constitute “authentic” cottage cheese. Not so. Cottage cheese is yet another food that industrialization altered from its original quality. Just as its name suggests, cottage cheese was first made in the kitchens of country cottages where staple ingredients (non-homogenized milk, cream, and cultures) were used to slowly make the simple cheese that came to be known as cottage cheese. We persist in practicing that original method by using just non-homogenized milk, cream, salt, and
