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$Milk a 10000 year food fracas mark kurlansky$

The word bottle in "bottle-feeding" originally referred to milk that was delivered in a sealed bottle, replacing the term "artificial feeding.Rudimentary refrigerators were invented at the turn of the 19th century to keep butter fresh.State laws forced some clean-up of the industry, but the big safety overhaul came via Louis Pasteur, today memorialized by the word "pasteurized."

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In the mid-1880s, urban babies died at an alarming rate, many after drinking so-called swill milk from cows fed with leftovers from breweries and tethered in filthy barns.

The ice cream soda was invented in Philadelphia in 1874.

Milk for other people was delivered in open pails and often had sticks and dirt in it.

To avoid milk going bad, some babies were held to animals' udders to suckle.

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Several cultures thought wet nurses passed their personality traits along to the babies they breastfed.Buddhists in ancient Japan called Westerners "butter-stinkers." In medieval Europe, the Dutch were mocked for their love of dairy and called kaaskoppen, which means cheese heads – until they became a global superpower.The Persian equivalent of "mind your own business" was "Go beat your own yogurt.".In the Middle Ages, Christians were prohibited from drinking milk on meatless holy days, because they believed it was blood that had turned white.Among the fascinating nuggets in "Milk!": Como explica Mark Kurlansky en su nuevo libro, Milk: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas, que recorre la historia del alimento, los méritos y peligros de la leche se han debatido durante al menos los.

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