{"id":54580,"date":"2023-04-24T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/apr\/24\/curd-instinct-traditional-nepali-churpi-snack-reborn-as-dog-chews-in-us"},"modified":"2023-04-24T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T06:00:00","slug":"curd-instinct-ancient-nepali-food-reborn-as-dog-chews-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54580","title":{"rendered":"Curd instinct: ancient Nepali food reborn as dog chews in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exporting churpi, herders\u2019 smoked yak cheese, has transformed lives in remote Himalayan villages<\/p>\n<p>On a cold, wet August morning in the windswept high pastures of the Nepalese Himalayas, a stream of herders bring fresh milk to a makeshift tent at an altitude of 4,200 metres. The bells of grazing yaks and <em>chauris<\/em> (a cross between male yaks and female cattle) echo across the silent valleys as men work under a tarpaulin measuring, boiling and separating milk into curds and whey.<\/p>\n<p>The curds are strained in cloth bags and pressed under weights to remove as much whey as possible before being sent to the village below to be made into <em>churpi <\/em>(or <em>chhurpi<\/em>), a dried snack that has found an unlikely new lease of life, transforming pastoralists\u2019 lives in Nepal in the process.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/apr\/24\/curd-instinct-traditional-nepali-churpi-snack-reborn-as-dog-chews-in-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exporting churpi, herders\u2019 smoked yak cheese, has transformed lives in remote Himalayan villagesOn a cold, wet August morning in the windswept high pastures of the Nepalese Himalayas, a stream of herders bring fresh milk to a makeshift tent at an altit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,868,65,653,311,59,78,241,284,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-dogs","category-environment","category-farming","category-food","category-global-development","category-life-and-style","category-nepal","category-pets","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54581,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54580\/revisions\/54581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}