Texas Goat Cheese

The Dallas Morning News has a roundup of goat cheeses in the Lone Star state. Seems like Texans are beginning to like the stuff. Here's an excerpt:

At its freshest and best, a spoonful of chilled chèvre is almost like a bite of premium ice cream.

Texans in general are a little bit late coming to this party, says cheese doyenne Paula Lambert, whose Mozzarella Company made Dallas' first fresh chèvre in the mid-1980s.

"I think, in Texas, it really got going in the Hill Country and spread from there, as more people went back to the land and got interested in organics," she adds. "Whole Foods started in Austin, after all."

Tonia Ashworth-Kuesel of Chateau de Fromage says that the goat-cheese industry is really growing in Texas. "Of 22 cheesemakers in Texas," she notes, "17 make goat cheese."

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