Name: Milk: A 10,000-Year History
SKU: 52075897
Price: 339.00 ZAR
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Author: Mark Kurlansky
ISBN: 9781526614346

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mark Kurlansky

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

400

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781526614346

Milk: A 10,000-Year History

Mark Kurlansky (Author) · Bloomsbury Publishing · Paperback

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Synopsis "Milk: A 10,000-Year History "

Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic and culinary story of milk and all things dairy - with recipes throughoutAccording to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera's breast milk became our galaxy, the Milky Way. 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 10,000 years ago. Today, milk is a test case in the most pressing issues in food politics, from industrial farming and animal rights to GMOs, the locavore movement and advocates for raw milk, who controversially reject pasteurisation. Profoundly intertwined with human civilization, milk has a compelling and a surprisingly global story to tell, and historian Mark Kurlansky is the perfect person to tell it. Tracing the liquid's diverse history from antiquity to the present, he details its curious and crucial role in cultural evolution, religion, nutrition, politics, and economics.

Mark Kurlansky

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Mark Kurlansky es un escritor y periodista que ha trabajado como corresponsal para The Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer y The Miami Herald. Centrado en la divulgación de la historia cultural, es autor de los best seller internacionales El bacalao y La historia vasca del mundo.

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