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 Cataloging source DLC Kurlansky, Mark Dewey number 637/. 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. A 10,000-Year Food Fracas Hardcover by Mark Kurlansky (Author) 302 ratings Editors' pick Best Cookbooks, Food & Wine See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 25.27 1 New from 25.27 Paperback 15.99 35 Used from 5.53 28 New from 11. 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. Language eng 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. Label Milk! : a 10,000-year food fracas Title Milk! Title remainder a 10,000-year food fracas Statement of responsibility Mark Kurlansky Creator
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