Greek Yogurt a Boon for New York State

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/business/demand-for-greek-style-helps-form-a-yogurt-cluster-in-new-york.html

Sales of Greek yogurt are booming, benefiting from a perception that the food is healthier than regular yogurt and other snacks.

Healthier?  Greek yogurt ranges from zero fat to 10% fat!  I must admit I forget about the healthiness - I love the creaminess of 10% fat Greek yogurt!

The brands mentioned are Fage and Total.  Fage make the Total brand which is well known.  I hadn't heard of Chobani before - founded four years ago by a Turkish immigrant and now the  leading American maker of Greek yogurt.

Yogurt Bar

In all my years of travelling in Greece, I have only once been in a bar or cafe specialising in yogurt.  In Andros chora (this was in the 1990s) I found a cafe sellin home made yogurt.  either I have been looking in the wrong places, or yoghurt cafes are well hidden; or there are few.

Whilst I was in Greece in July 2011 I read an article in Athens News Filling the yoghurt niche about a new yogurt cafe in Athens  - the Fresko Yogurt Cafe, not far from the new Acropolis Museum.  I must pay a visit next time I am in Athens.

In case you are` wondering about the differing spellings of "yoghurt", from the Athens News article

THE SIGN catches your eye and, as a native English speaker, you immediately jump on the fact that they have forgotten the ‘h’. Fresko Yogurt Bar, however, has intentionally dropped the ‘h’, in keeping with the original Turkish word yogurt

I often spelling yoghurt with a "j"!