goatherding...........

ok,so the new gourmet magazine came today....and though i have been in the restaurant business for 4 solid years....i have never looked at recipes and thought...wow.....i could make something like this and sell it........but today...i read a brief piece and thought....wow.....i should learn how to make goat cheese................to fill you in on the details.....there was a block in the 1st quarter section....usually devoted to blocks about this or that.......featuring farming internships/apprenticeships.......this is gourmet's annual farming/foodsource issue.......and there is a farm somewhere in ky that focuses on the making of goat cheese, as well as other organically grown produce, that is looking for apprentices for their growing season, but would consider short-termers who would pitch a tent and learn the art of making goat cheese..............gentle readers......if ever i was to consider farming/manufacture of any kind...it would be involving cheese...........cheese is something for which i feel true passion.....my earilest memory of my hometown is in a swiss-owned cheese house....in the curing room.....which smelled nutty....and tasting a bit of cheese cut from a huge wheel......the floor was wet concrete........and the air was moist.......why could not someone make cured goat cheese in a similar manner......of course, i would have to win the lottery to buy the horse farm down the road.......and buy goats.......i do not think i could actually eat the goats.........that was the worst part of cold mountain, by the way...........i am too squeamish for eating goats, however.....i have read that there is a huge market for goats in the islamic community during festival months...........anyway.....i have shifted my lottery fantasy......to include goatherd/cheesemaker............as long as i had people who could milk while i traveled................