[彭蒙惠英语]大有可为的乳酪（2）
The Big Cheese (2/3)
Tourists visit Vermont dairy artisans
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Farming revival
Or so it seemed. As recently as a decade ago, there still were just a handful of small producers in the state. But slumping* milk prices, rising fuel costs and, more recently, lousy weather have prompted * farmers to return to gourmet cheese making as a way to stay in business, explains Mateo Kehler, 34, of Jasper Hill Farm in Greensboro. This year alone as many as 30 percent of the state's dairy farmers are facing bankruptcy ,* he says. "Cheese making is a vehicle for the renewal of our agricultural community." Kehler says.
Kehler, who has been making cheese for just three years with milk from 38 Ayrshire cows, just shared a "best of show' prize from a field of 941 cheeses at the American Cheese Society Competition in Portland, Oregon, for a cloth-bound *, cellar-aged cheddar made in a joint venture with the state's largest cheese maker, Cabot Creamery.
Old-fashioned, but delicious
Gazing at the Green Mountains in the distance, which the changing leaves have colored in spectacular reds and golds, Kehler explains that Vermont has an advantage because of its lush * pasturelands , which offer the perfect meal for milk-producing cows, sheep and goats. Like other small producers, he only uses raw, unpasteurized * milk, which he says retains the flavor of the land more than the pasteurized milk used by the big makers. And he ages his cheeses the old-fashioned way, in cool, damp cellars where they develop a nuanced ,* sophisticated flavor that draws on the local microflora * of bacteria, yeast and molds.
Because of the workload, Kehler discourages visitors to his farm. But nearby Cabot, his partner in the award-winning Cabot Clothbound Cheddar, offers a 30-minute guided tour complete with movie.
slumping (adj) --- describing the sudden fall of prices, values or sales
prompt (v) --- to make something happen
bankruptcy (n) --- the position of being unable to pay what you owe, and having control of your financial matters given, by a court of law, to a person who sells your property to pay your debts
lush (adj) --- having lost of green, healthy plants, grass and trees
nuanced (adj) --- having a very slight or subtle difference
Specialized Terms
cloth-bound (adj) --- 以布紧密裹住的 completely wrapped in fabric of some sort
unpasteurized (adj) --- 未经杀菌的 not having undergone a process where something, especially milk, is heated at a controlled temperature for a fixed period of time in order to kill bacteria
microflora (n) --- 微菌丛 a small or strictly localized habitat of plats and algae that cannot be seen with the naked eye
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