Milk, 9781526614346
Paperback
A global journey into milk: culture, politics, and surprising history.

Milk

a 10,000-year history

$38.21

  • Paperback

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    5 September 2019

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Summary

Milk: A Global History

Mark Kurlansky’s captivating exploration of milk, a cultural, economic, and culinary journey through dairy history, complete with recipes.

Mother’s milk is vital, but humans have relied on other mammals’ milk since domesticating animals over 10,000 years ago. Today, milk embodies food politics’ most pressing issues: industrial farming, animal rights, GMOs, the locavore movement, and the raw milk debate.

Milk’s story is deeply entwined with huma…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781526614346
ISBN-10:1526614340
Author:Mark Kurlansky
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:5 September 2019
Weight:322g
Dimensions:36mm x 197mm x 129mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

[A] wonderfully wide-ranging study – PD Smith * Guardian *[A] rich, fascinating and comprehensive history … [A] highly readable volume, stuffed with colourful historical facts from all corners of the globe and epochs * Spectator *A feat of investigation, compilation and organization … Altogether a complex and rich survey, Milk! is a book well worth nursing. * Wall Street Journal *A treasure trove of fascinating details * The Times *The sort of book that Proust might have written had Proust become distracted by the madeleine … you step away from this book with a new vantage on history * New York Times Book Review *

About The Author

Mark Kurlansky

Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling author of Cod, Salt, Paper, The Basque History of the World, 1968, The Big Oyster, International Night, The Eastern Stars, A Continent of Islands, and The White Man in the Tree and Other Stories. He received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonviolence, Bon Appetit’s Food Writer of the Year Award, the James Beard Award, and the Glenfiddich Award. Salt was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. He spent ten years as Caribbean correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He lives in New York City.

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