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A Goat Stomach, a Nobel Prize Winner, and How the Grateful Dead Saved a Yogurt.

Yogurt Secrets: 7,000 Years of Live Cultures, Instant Pot Homemade Yogurt, and the Grateful Dead’s Benefit That Saved Nancy’s Yogurt

This episode of Family Tree Food and Stories explores yogurt’s origins, surprising cultural history, and recipes. From its accidental invention 7,000 years ago when Central Asian herders carried milk in animal-stomach pouches while on horseback to global variations like dahi, labneh, skyr, and Bulgaria’s famous yogurt variety.

Hosts Nancy May and Sylvia France share how to make yogurt simply in an Instant Pot, explain troubleshooting challenges, and make your…

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