Milk! : a 10,000-year food fracas
Kurlansky, Mark2018
Book
The fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy - with recipes throughout. 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.
Main title:
Milk! : a 10,000-year food fracas / Mark Kurlansky.
Author:
Kurlansky, Mark, author
Imprint:
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
Collation:
xiv, 384 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781632863829 (hbk)
Dewey class:
641.37109
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2680955