Pour a glass and get out the cookies before reading." - Library Journal's Nonfiction Picks, May 2018 "As with Mark Kurlansky's Cod and Salt, I wish I had written Milk! Never would I have thought that so elementary a liquid food had such an intriguing history, one that includes science, politics, economics, and gourmandize. That relationship shifted with the Industrial Revolution, which meant out with the family cow and in with pasteurization and, eventually, food fights over industrial farming, animal rights, and GMOs. Here he examines our relationship to milk since the domestication of animals more than 10,000 years ago. Kurlansky's charming history brims with excellent stories and great details." - Publisher's Weekly "Cod, salt, paper, oysters, 1968, and Havana-Kurlansky always picks a singular subject, then runs with it as he provides historical and cultural context. "Kurlansky's entertaining, fast-paced history of milk exhibits his usual knack for plumbing the depths of a single subject.
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