![]() ![]() Recipes are included because they are “invaluable artifacts. Dominican batida de lechosa, fromage à l’angloise, fudge, and kalakand (a milk-based sweet from Rajasthan) are also featured. More than 100 recipes are interwoven into his compelling narrative where one can learn how to make Irish scones, Cato’s cheesecake, Paneer Makhani, beurre blanc, fried milk, yogurt, or hot chocolate. Kurlansky’s comprehensive gulp on the history of milk spans the Earth, focusing in part on England, Iceland, China, Tibet, and the United States. “Almond milk,” for example, is artificial therefore, it is not milk and cannot be so named. The North Carolina Legislature’s latest move is a proposal to ban any “milk” that is not from a creature. ![]() In recent years they have come up with new things to fight about: GMO and organic and hormones.” No wonder the subtitle of his new book Milk! is “A 10,000-Year Food Fracas.”Įven the United States government, kowtowing to commercial interests, does not want to support and acknowledge the value of mother’s milk. ![]() Whether milk is good for you has been fought over. When you think about it, it was a pretty weird thing to begin with, the idea that we could replace mothers with secretions from animals. Mark Kurlansky writes that milk is a “10,000-year-old controversy. ![]()
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