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Valenze, Deborah M., 1953-
Subjects
Milk -- History.
Milk -- Social aspects.
Cooking (Milk) -- History.
Dairy products -- History.
Food habits -- History.
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Valenze, Deborah M., 1953-
Milk -- History.
Milk -- Social aspects.
Cooking (Milk) -- History.
Dairy products -- History.
Food habits -- History.
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Milk
: a local and global
history
/ Deborah Valenze.
by
Valenze, Deborah M., 1953-
Yale University Press, c2011.
Call #:
641.371 V16m
Subjects
Milk
--
History
.
Milk
--
Social aspects.
Cooking
(
Milk
)
--
History
.
Dairy products
--
History
.
Food habits
--
History
.
ISBN:
9780300117240 (hardback)
0300117248 (hardback)
Description:
xv, 351 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-335) and index.
Contents:
The culture of
milk
. Great mothers and cows of plenty
--
Virtuous white liquor in the Middle Ages
--
The Renaissance of
milk
--
Feeding people. Cash cows and Dutch diligence
--
A taste for
milk
and how it grew
--
Milk
comes of age as cheese
--
An interlude of livestock
history
--
Industry, science, and medicine.
Milk
in the nursery, chemistry in the kitchen
--
Beneficial bovines and the business of
milk
--
Milk
in an age of indigestion
--
Milk
gone bad
--
Milk
as modern. The ABC's of
milk
--
Good for everybody in the twentieth century
--
Milk
today.
Summary:
"How did an animal product that spoils easily, carries disease, and causes digestive trouble for many of its consumers become a near-universal symbol of modern nutrition? In the first cultural
history
of
milk
, historian Deborah Valenze traces the rituals and beliefs that have governed
milk
production and consumption since its use in the earliest societies. Covering the long span of human
history
,
Milk
reveals how developments in technology, public health, and nutritional science made this once-rare elixir a modern-day staple. The book looks at the religious meanings of
milk
, along with its association with pastoral life, which made it an object of mystery and suspicion during medieval times and the Renaissance. As early modern societies refined agricultural techniques, cow's
milk
became crucial to improving diets and economies, launching
milk
production and consumption into a more modern phase. Yet as business and science transformed the product in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, commercial
milk
became not only a common and widely available commodity but also a source of uncertainty when used in place of human breast
milk
for infant feeding. Valenze also examines the dairy culture of the developing world, looking at the example of India, currently the world's largest
milk
producer. Ultimately,
milk
's surprising
history
teaches us how to think about our relationship to food in the present, as well as in the past. It reveals that although
milk
is a product of nature, it has always been an artifact of culture"--Dustjacket.
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