These hardworking rural dwellers make their living by herding horses, camels, goats, cattle and sheep for milk, cashmere, meat and other livestock products.

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Mr. Monis recommends using a sheep's milk variety stored in brine.

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Or head to the dining room, spectacularly carved from a massive boulder, for ravioli stuffed with brocciu (sheep's milk ricotta) and herb-strewn veal chops grilled over an open fire.

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Not surprisingly, Glander makes full use of what's right around him--our spring weekend was heavy on ramps, young peas, sheep's-milk ricotta and hemlock (from the tree, not the poisonous plant).

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Get into the local swing of things and load your breakfast plate with tangy sheep's-milk cheese, plump olives, flavourful tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, home-made jam and freshly-baked crusty white bread or simit (a sesame-encrusted bread ring).

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The treatment is produced transgenically - meaning that human proteins are injected into the genetic material of a sheep and collected through its milk.

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Inside, they transform fresh milk from their flock of East Friesian sheep into a handful of artisan cheeses, such as the washed-rind Trefoil or the Singing Brook which is wiped down with olive oil as it ages in the basement cheese cave.

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