Colby Free Press Friday, November 24, 2006 Page 7 Buffalo cheese stampede TV LISTINGS BANGOR, Calif. (AP) — Think the larger of two mozzarella-pro- rella lining grocery store shelves fresh mozzarella and buffalo toma- ducing water buffalo dairies in the and grated onto millions of pizzas. toes are more likely to come to mind country. So far, Heick is managing to than water buffalos. The average American ate a squeeze out $1 million in annual sponsored by the But true mozzarella can only be record 10 pounds of mozzarella last sales, an increase from the made from the rich, fatty milk of the year, twice the rate of a decade ago, $350,000 the dairy took in four water buffalo. For years, chefs and according to data compiled by the years ago. gourmands in the United States University of Wisconsin. But nearly “If we had more milk, we could COLBY FREE PRESS would settle for nothing less than all of it was made from cow’s milk sell much more cheese,” said Heick, the smooth, white balls of mozza- and manufactured by a handful of who plans to expand his water buf- rella di bufala, airlifted from Italy. large, industrial dairies. falo herd in the next few years. SUNDAY NOVEMBER 26 Hanns Michael Heick is hoping For centuries, Italian cheese Still, the dairy is a long way from to crack Italy’s mozzarella mo- makers dominated the gourmet profitability, held down by the ex- nopoly in a quixotic quest to pro- mozzarella market, due largely to penses of an operation that is spread 6 AM 6:30 7 AM 7:30 8 AM 8:30 9 AM 9:30 10 AM 10:30 11 AM 11:30 duce the finest mozzarella this side the domestication of large herds of across California at three locations. 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