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 and indexes

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Milk!

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1019607458

Responsibility statement

Mark Kurlansky

Sub title

a 10,000-year food fracas

Summary

Mother's milk may be the essence of nourishment, but it is the milk of other mammals that humans have cultivated ever since the domestication of animals more than 10,000 years ago. During the nineteenth century mass production and urbanization made milk safety a leading issue of the day, with milk-borne illnesses a common cause of death. Pasteurization slowly became a legislative matter. Today milk is a test case in the most pressing issues in food politics. Kurlansky traces milk's history from antiquity to the present, detailing its curious and crucial role in cultural evolution, religion, nutrition, politics, and economics

Table Of Contents

Part one. The safety of curds -- The first taste of sweetness -- Going sour in the fertile crescent -- Cheesy civilization -- Buttery barbarians -- Desert milk -- The days of milk and beer -- The cheese heads -- To make pudding -- Everyone's favorite milk -- Part two. Drinking dangerously -- Dying for some milk -- The first safe milk -- A new and endless fight -- Industrial cows -- Modern cuisines -- Part three. Cows and truth -- The buttering of Tibet -- China's growing tolerance -- Trouble in cow paradise -- Raw craftsmanship -- The search for consensus -- Risky initializations

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