While most folks are on the long holiday, we're on a conference call talking about the summer issue. Sometimes magazine work can be a grind.

Time for a goat massage:

Brought to you by the fine folks at Becky's Homestead.

Ladies and gentlemen, this month's toast of the Internet, Champis, the sheep herding dwarf rabbit. Chapis lives at Gardsbacken farm (?) perhaps in Sweden. Swedish readers, check out their blog and tell me what the heck else is going on.

Reposting a video that came my way via Carlos Yescas: a rather pointed reminder of who's cooking in the kitchen.

Not only are Mexican immigrants supplying raw labor in restaurants in California—and around the country—but they're applying their skills to the dishes as master craftsmen. I'm reminded of Anthony Bourdain's typically unvarnished praise from Kitchen Confidential:

Just thought I'd share this little bit of local TV which came by way of @NY Farmer:

Sally Goodrich is an 81 year-old dairy farmer in Cabot, VT, where she and her husband Walt still look after their herd of 120 cows, descendants of a famously prodigious milker named Flower:

Magazine maven and media scamp Connor Knighton gave us the shout out bright and early today on CBS Sunday Morning. An honor to be mentioned in the same breath as Backyard Poultry and Fashion Doll Quarterly!

I only wonder how he slipped the centerfold past the censors...

Jose Andres from the ThinkFoodGroup is at it again. How can you not like a recipe that begins by making cheese and ends with that cheese wrapped in a milk skin, accompanied by jellied whey and a cappuccino-like foam topping?

Previously: Idiazabal Cheese Eggs and Almond Cups with Spanish Blue Cheese

Kate spotted this great archival video from Papillon documenting Roquefort-making back in the 20's. Great for mustache aficionados, or anyone looking to catch a glimpse into cheesemaking's past. Following the silent show, there's a modern piece so you can have a look at how Papillon does it today...

The folks at Pastoral have a little DIY project in case anyone has a spare boule of Mimolette lying around. The Mim-o-lantern is the unofficial mascot of Scary Dairy!

This creature was invented by former Pastoral manager Greg Ellis and its creation was caught on video! This is no hoax, folks. Check out the video! Happy Halloween!

For a somewhat more, ah, intense cheesehead masterpiece, we also present this bleeding cheeseskull via Not Martha for your delectation. Warning: it's gross.

This video about artisan chocolateirs Mast Brothers, via The Scout, contains one of the most intense openings for any chocolate-based movie I can remember, Gene Wilder's performance in Willy Wonka excepted.

The Brooklyn-based brothers have gained notoriety not only for their full, silky beards, but also for their utter commitment to hand-manufacture, to the point of commissioning a sailboat to deliver their cocoa beans from the Dominican Republic, New York's first cargo delivery by sail since 1939.

Hi, Mom!

Thanks for sending me this link to the mysterious Yogurito; I love Japanese softdrinks like the mysteriously stony-flavored Pocari Sweat and the milk-based, lacto-fermented Calpis Water, so it might just be up my alley.