no kidding, in the 2nd largest city in the US you can’t find a single source of renet?

Faboo,

I got to thinking about your dilemma and I came up with this: why not find a fellow cheesemaker and ask for his or her source? I’m know you can find artisan cheese at the various farmers markets around town, in which case you’re bound to find the person that made them. Also, there’s this article in an old LATimes:

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jul/11/food/fo-cheese11

In it they mention a number of cheese shops that sell locally made cheese, perhaps they might stock vegetable rennet or direct you to someone who does. The most promising of those mentioned in “The Artisan Cheese Gallery” (ugh) in Studio City.

Happy Hunting!

If you don’t mind going to Woodland Hills, try http://www.homebeerwinecheese.com/. It is the only place in L.A. that sold vegetarian rennet when I was looking.

Thank you elmorash. In the previous post, drewnbage suggested I go there too. It’s just that I never get to that side of town and Diamond Bar is closer to me. My thinking was, “If I have to drive to Woodland Hills, I may as well just go out to Diamond Bar.”

Well, imagine my surprise, when last week I had to shoot a site in Encino, but didn’t have the time to go to WH, because I had to shoot 3 other sites and be back in time to pick up my kid from school. I thought I could dip over there, but the LA Metblogs site does not render well on my phone.

kellygrace, thank you. I have that article bookmarked somewhere, but couldn’t find it. frazgo: It seems part of the problem is that no one knows what I’m talking about. I’ve called so many cheese shops around LA and I get, “What? What is that?” None of the kosher stores I tried sold it, though I was sure if I hit the ones on Pico in W. LA that I’d find it.