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{ Janet Fletcher / Food Writer }

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Does U.S. Bufala Cheese Have a Future?

February 27, 2024 janet@janetfletcher.com

I hope I live long enough to see American-made water buffalo cheese at every cheese counter, but it’s not looking good. One step forward, two steps back. Someone starts a water buffalo dairy, another fails. I dream of homegrown mozzarella di bufala, of course. But Italian cheesemakers do so much more with this super-rich milk. The gorgeous, slumpy cheese pictured above demonstrates what water buffalo milk can do in skilled hands. Will we ever get there?

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In From: U.S., Milk: Water Buffalo Tags water buffalo cheese, mozzarella di bufala, Bergamino di bufala, latte di bufala, Oro Bianco, Double 8 Dairy, Ramini mozzarella
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Bella Mozzarella

September 25, 2018 janet@janetfletcher.com
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Mozzarella consumption plummets once tomato season ends, but not at my house. I love mozzarella with roasted sweet peppers and, in winter, with cooked greens. This summer, a buffalo-milk mozzarella from Colombia caught my eye. It took a blue ribbon at the American Cheese Society judging, and I realized I’d been seeing the brand around but hadn’t tried it. The Colombian co-founder of Būf Creamery told me the company’s origin story—there’s a Cornell connection—and confirmed its head-spinning growth.

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Tags American Cheese Society, Colombia, mozzarella di bufala, water buffalo mozzarella, Būf Creamery
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Buffalo Stampede

June 5, 2018 janet@janetfletcher.com
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You’re not imagining it. Buffalo are roaming all over American cheese counters these days. Buffalo ricotta, mozzarella, Camembert, blue. I haven’t spotted a buffalo Cheddar yet, but surely any day now. From a curiosity to (almost) mainstream in a decade, cheese made with rich water-buffalo milk is having its moment. Many are good; a few are great. 

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In From: Italy, From: U.S. Tags water buffalo, water buffalo cheese, bufala, mozzarella di bufala, ricotta, Quattro Portoni, Casa Madaio
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