Bibliograph

Milk!, a 10,000-year food fracas, Mark Kurlansky

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Milk!, a 10,000-year food fracas, Mark Kurlansky

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-357) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Milk!

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

10196074581080951429

Responsibility statement

Mark Kurlansky

Sub title

a 10,000-year food fracas

Summary

According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera's breast milk became our galaxy, the Milky Way. But while mother's milk may be the essence of nourishment, it is the milk of other mammals that humans have cultivated ever since the domestication of animals more than 10,000 years ago, originally as a source of cheese, yogurt, kefir, and all manner of edible innovations that rendered lactose digestible, and then, when genetic mutation made some of us lactose-tolerant, milk itself. Today milk is a test case in the most pressing issues in food politics, from industrial farming and animal rights to GMOs, the locavore movement, and advocates for raw milk, who controversially reject pasteurization. Historian Mark Kurlansky traces the liquid's diverse history from antiquity to the present, and details its curious and crucial role in cultural evolution, religion, nutrition, politics, and economics

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