Milk : a Local and Global History /
"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 prod...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press,
©2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.