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Auteur(s) : Valenze, Deborah M. (1953-....)
Titre(s) : Milk [Texte imprimé] : a local and global history / Deborah Valenze
Publication : New Haven (Conn.) : Yale University Press, c2011
Description matérielle : xv, 351 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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" ; "A history of milk and its many uses in different cultures of the world"
Sujet(s) : Lait -- Histoire
Lait -- Société
Produits laitiers -- Histoire
Coutumes alimentaires -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780300117240 (hardback). - ISBN 0300117248 (hardback). - ISBN 9780300188127
(pbk.). - ISBN 0300188129 (pbk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb436387817
Notice n° :
FRBNF43638781
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