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000352039 1001_ $$aValenze, Deborah M.,$$d1953-
000352039 24510 $$aMilk :$$ba local and global history /$$cDeborah Valenze.
000352039 260__ $$aNew Haven :$$bYale University Press,$$c2011.
000352039 300__ $$axv, 351 p. :$$bill. ;$$c25 cm.
000352039 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000352039 520__ $$a"How did an animal product that spoils easily, carries disease, and causes digestive trouble for many of its consumers become a near-universal symbol of modern nutrition? In the first cultural history of milk, historian Deborah Valenze traces the rituals and beliefs that have governed milk production and consumption since its use in the earliest societies. Covering the long span of human history, Milk reveals how developments in technology, public health, and nutritional science made this once-rare elixir a modern-day staple. The book looks at the religious meanings of milk, along with its association with pastoral life, which made it an object of mystery and suspicion during medieval times and the Renaissance. As early modern societies refined agricultural techniques, cow's milk became crucial to improving diets and economies, launching milk production and consumption into a more modern phase. Yet as business and science transformed the product in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, commercial milk became not only a common and widely available commodity but also a source of uncertainty when used in place of human breast milk for infant feeding. Valenze also examines the dairy culture of the developing world, looking at the example of India, currently the world's largest milk producer. Ultimately, milk's surprising history teaches us how to think about our relationship to food in the present, as well as in the past. It reveals that although milk is a product of nature, it has always been an artifact of culture"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000352039 520__ $$a"A history of milk and its many uses in different cultures of the world"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000352039 650_0 $$aMilk$$xHistory.
000352039 650_0 $$aMilk$$xSocial aspects.
000352039 650_0 $$aCooking (Milk)$$xHistory.
000352039 650_0 $$aDairy products$$xHistory.
000352039 650_0 $$aFood habits$$xHistory.
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