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.
Some of them say, 'We'll just have to go to Europe.' . John Winterman, who buys cheese for Gary Danko's acclaimed cheese service, says he recently learned that he can no longer get Langres, a French washed- rind cheese. Currently there are no Langres producers on the approved list of the FDA, Winterman says. I've been doing the cheese program here for three years, and for the first two, we had no problem getting raw-milk goat cheeses (from Jacquin).