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Author:

Valenze, Deborah M., 1953-

Title:

Milk : a local and global history / Deborah Valenze.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

1 v. : ill.

Subject:

Milk--History.
Milk--Social aspects.
Cooking (Milk)--History.
Milk trade--History.
Food habits--History.
Dairy products--History.
Cooking (Milk)
Dairy products.
Food habits.
Milk.
Milk--Social aspects.
Milk trade.
History.

Notes:

Originally published: 2011. Includes bibliographical references and index. New Book -- May -- 2014

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:

A history of milk and its many uses in different cultures of the world.

ISBN:

0300188129 (pbk.)
9780300188127 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)794136242

Locations:

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)