Milk : a Local and Global History /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Valenze, Deborah M., 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Milk > History.
Milk > Social aspects.
Cooking (Milk) > History.
Dairy products > History.
Food habits > History.
Milk > history
Dairy Products > history
Feeding Behavior > psychology
Lait > Histoire.
Lait > Aspect social.
Cuisine (Lait) > Histoire.
Produits laitiers > Histoire.
Habitudes alimentaires > Histoire.
COOKING > Specific Ingredients > Dairy.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Animal Husbandry.
HISTORY > Social History.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Food Science.
COOKING > General.
Cooking (Milk)
Dairy products.
Food habits.
Milk.
Milch
Milchproduktion
Milchhandel
Anthropology.
Social Sciences.
Manners & Customs.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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