Living here in the country we drive 40 miles roundtrip to visit the nearest pizzeria. And we have a thing for pizza.
“Pea-za. PEA-ZA,” my hungry G says.
Needless to say I am perfecting my pizza-making skills. Each pizza pie doesn’t turn out the same. Maybe since I can’t remember how many cups of flour I plop into the mixer for the dough. Or I might sprinkle a dump-truck full of red pepper into the tomato sauce. Opps again.
I do get one thing right, every time. At least 3 cups of mozzarella cheese cover the sausage, green pepper and pepperoni.
Like the next farm story says: “pizza isn’t pizza without cheese.”
In Cris Peterson’s book Extra Cheese, Please: Mozzarella’s Journey from Cow to Pizza step by step photographs follow cheese making from the udder to the factory. And those photographs show crisp and well-lit scenes, even inside a cheese factory. Photographer Alvis Upitis documents how the milkman pulls samples of milk before he hauls and how the cheesemaker separates the curds from the whey.
Author Peterson has a knack for bringing the numbers to life.
“Annabelle is quite a cow. In one year she produces 40,000 glasses of milk, enough to make cheese for 1,800 pizzas. If your family ate one pizza a day, it would take you nearly five years to eat that many pizzas.”
“Annabelle is quite a cow. In one year she produces 40,000 glasses of milk, enough to make cheese for 1,800 pizzas. If your family ate one pizza a day, it would take you nearly five years to eat that many pizzas.”
One pizza a day, for 5 years? I know a family up for the challenge. But don’t expect me to turn the oven on every night. A road trip to the local DiMaggios Pizza will be a must.
What do you like on your pizza?
Lauren
Our blogging host Holly Spangler writes “30 Days on a Prairie Farm” this month on her blog: My Generation.
It’s a group party, of sorts! Please join fellow bloggers as they tell their agricultural stories:
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Our blogging host Holly Spangler writes “30 Days on a Prairie Farm” this month on her blog: My Generation.
It’s a group party, of sorts! Please join fellow bloggers as they tell their agricultural stories:
Beyer Beware: 30 Days, 30 Things You Never Knew About Food
Black Ink: Beef's a Trip - 30 Days from Gate to Plate
Confessions of a Farm Wife: Life on our Farm
Go Beyond the Barn: 30 Days of Farm Life Blessings
Kelly McCormick Photography: 30 Days of Thankfulness
Le Jardin da ma Vie: 30 Reasons Why I Love Being a Farmer's Wife
Pinke Post: 30 Days of a North Dakota November
Rural Route 2: 30 Days of the Not-So-Glamorous Life of This Farm Wife
Black Ink: Beef's a Trip - 30 Days from Gate to Plate
Confessions of a Farm Wife: Life on our Farm
Go Beyond the Barn: 30 Days of Farm Life Blessings
Kelly McCormick Photography: 30 Days of Thankfulness
Le Jardin da ma Vie: 30 Reasons Why I Love Being a Farmer's Wife
Pinke Post: 30 Days of a North Dakota November
Rural Route 2: 30 Days of the Not-So-Glamorous Life of This Farm Wife
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