Digestion starts in the mouth where chewing and saliva breaks down food so it is more easily processed by your body. Esophagus: The esophagus is a muscular tube that connects the pharynx (throat) to the stomach. The esophagus contracts as it moves food into the stomach. A âvalveâ called the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) is located just before the opening to the stomach.
âWhen I was in kindergarten, they took us to a barn, and I remember when I went in and saw the cows and the smell of the barn, I just kind of fell in love,â said Ruffa, who operates family-run Bella Stella Cheese with wife Irma and their four children on a 40-acre plot on Trinity Valley Road.
He opened PÃ³ in 1993. When Mario married Susi, he gained a father-in-law, Miles Cahn, who is nearly as passionate about food as his own father is. Miles co-owns the Coach Dairy Goat Farm in Pine Plains, New York, with his wife, Lillian. As the man who put goat cheese on virtually every Manhattan restaurant menu--and the founder of Coach Leatherware--Miles was famous in his own right, but things changed after Mario came into the family.