{"product_id":"milk-a-10-000-year-food-fracas-by-mark-kurlansky","title":"Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas - By Mark Kurlansky","description":"\u003ch4\u003eMark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCod\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Salt\u003c\/i\u003e; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy--with recipes throughout.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAccording 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. 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBefore the industrial revolution, it was common for families to keep dairy cows and produce their own milk. But during the nineteenth century mass production and urbanization made milk safety a leading issue of the day, with milk-borne illnesses a common cause of death. Pasteurization slowly became a legislative matter. And 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProfoundly intertwined with human civilization, milk has a compelling and a surprisingly global story to tell, and historian Mark Kurlansky is the perfect person to tell it. Tracing the liquid's diverse history from antiquity to the present, he details its curious and crucial role in cultural evolution, religion, nutrition, politics, and economics.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook Information\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePublished: 2016\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eCategory: History\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePages: 235\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eDimensions: 240 x 160 mm\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\" data-mce-style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ed0e0e;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ed0e0e;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote\u003c\/strong\u003e: Remaindered books or remainders are printed books that are over stocks and are sold at reduced prices. Remainder books are sometimes marked by the publisher, or slightly damaged.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e","brand":"Mark Kurlansky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39380406239274,"sku":"9781632863836","price":5.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/2811\/3956\/products\/Untitleddesign_1_a96129a2-d43c-4929-94d7-02b262c7bee2.jpg?v=1623455049","url":"https:\/\/puzzlesrusmore.au\/products\/milk-a-10-000-year-food-fracas-by-mark-kurlansky","provider":"booksrusandmore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}