Got Camel Milk Devon Avenue Does

                   Years back I was excited—and then crushed—to come across fermented mare and camel milk at Mundelein’s great Russian Alef Sausage & Deli. The stuff turned out to be fake, and my dreams of drinking shubat like a proper Kazakh were deferred. But dreams never die, as I learned when Friend of the Food Chain Dr. Peter Engler reported that he’d found raw pastured camel milk for sale on Devon Avenue. That’s right. There is a confederation of Amish-run camel dairies squeezing udders across the midwest and bottling it under the banner of Desert Farms, a Santa Monica concern founded by entrepreneur Walid Abdul-Wahab, inspired by a gift of fresh ungulate lactate while visiting Saudi Arabia.



          The store was touting the stuff as a luxurious holiday treat last month at $19.99 a bottle: “Honor your guests this Ramadan with America’s first and finest camel milk.”