Title: Audio Visual: Interview
Course: WVA 103 Fermentation Methods > Section: WVA 103 Fermentation Methods

Audio Visual: Interview

How to Make Buttermilk Good Enough to Drink

In the following lesson, students will listen a radio interview about  buttermilk with Diane St. Clair. St. Clair is famous in food circles for her butter. It’s the only butter that fine dining chef Thomas Keller of The French Laundry uses at his restaurant. In this interview on NPR’s splendid table, Ms. St. Clair discusses her dairy farm and buttermilk production using her herd of 10 cows on her farm in Orwell, Vt. She is the author of The Animal Farm Buttermilk Cookbook: Recipes and Reflections from a Small Vermont Dairy Farm.

Additionally, in this lesson, students are asked to examine a brief list of fermented milk products on Wikipedia produced worldwide to gain insight into the scope of dairy based fermentation. Students are asked to select and review three products listed. Please use this information to answer the discussion question.

Click here to access the How to Make Buttermilk Good Enough to Drink interview on the bottom of the NPR webpage.