Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas

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According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk: a splatter of the goddess Hera's breast milk became our galaxy. 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 ten thousand years ago. Profoundly intertwined with human civilisation, milk has a compelling and a surprisingly global story to tell. Tracing the liquid's diverse history from antiquity to the present, Mark Kurlansky details its curious and crucial role in cultural evolution, religion, nutrition, politics, and economics.