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Back in business: Woodstock Water Buffalo |
03.28.2008
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SOUTH WOODSTOCK, Vt.--Less than a month after Woodstock Water Buffalo shuttered its operations here, Toronto businessman Frank Abballe purchased the defunct company March 17.
In the coming weeks, the water buffalo milk, cheese, and yogurt will be introduced to the market--under its new brand name Vermont Water Buffalo, explained Carey Clifford, who resumed her post as director of marketing. Vermont Water Buffalo will start rolling out in its home state and then throughout New Hampshire and New England, she explained.
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Abballe, who owns Marc Angelo Food in Toronto, has spent the last year searching for a farm at which to begin a water buffalo operation and actually withdrew an offer when he learned about Woodstock and its 680-head herd.
New products, including buffalo meat and other style of cheeses are in the works.
Now with Abballe at the helm, Vermont Water Buffalo has begun working with other nearby cheesemakers at Crowley Cheese and Plymouth/Frog City Cheese to see what they can create with buffalo milk, which is higher in fat than cow's milk, Clifford said.
Aged, smoked buffalo milk cheese, such as the Italian Scamorza, as well as creative adaptations of Colby and aged parmesan are possibilities, Clifford said.
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