Format:
Book
Author:
Kurlansky, Mark, author.
Title:
Milk! : a 10,000-year food fracas / Mark Kurlansky.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Bloomsbury, 2018.
Description:
xiv, 385 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary:
Tracing milk's history from antiquity to the present, Kurlansky details its curious and crucial role in cultural evolution, religion, nutrition, politics, and economics.
Subjects:
Dairy products -- History.
Milk -- History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-357) and index.
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.
LCCN:
2017039795
ISBN:
9781632863829 (hardcover)
1632863820 (hardcover)
Other Number:
1019607458
System Availability:
14
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3601609
Call Number:
637/.109
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
14