num_pages: 158
description: MilkIt does a body good. Its difficult to deny the truth of the American Dairy Councils former advertising campaign. From birth milk is the sustaining and essential food of all mammals. It is the first food we ever taste. And yet despite that natural relationship to milk the majority of the worlds population cannot digest it in the form most often available to adultscows milk. In Milk  Hannah Velten explores the myths and misconceptions surrounding the ubiquitous drink. Modern milk processing produces a safe clean beverage that is very different from pure milk straight from the cow. Nonetheless there are many advocates of raw milk that long for the days before pasteurization homogenization and standardization. Yet milk in the time before these scientific processes was even less natural than todayknown then as the white poison it was bacteria-ridden mixed with additives to make it look like milk after the cream was removed filled with chemicals to promote its shelf life and extremely watered down. Now that milk is considered a staple of a healthy and balanced diet Velten investigates how and why conceptions of milk have shifted in the public consciousness from the science of nutrition to the dairy industrys advertising campaigns. This highly illustrated exploration of one of the most fundamental foods and drinks also includes recipes for ice-cream milkshakes and even milk paint. Milk will surprise and entertain in equal measure.
language: English
title: Milk: A Global History
publisher: Reaktion Books