"Du Puis' book is a rich and frothy drink, well worth consuming,
just like its subject."--"New York History"
"This is an entertaining, informative, and tightly argued book,
one well worth adding to any food library."
"Gastronomica"
"An excellent social history of the development of milk drinking
and production in the United States."
--"American Studies"
"Very readable and extremely well documented...DuPuis provides
great insights throughout by reflecting on the thoughts of
influential thinkers."
--"Choice"
"DuPuis is able to dive beneath the controversy that milk
engenders today. Instead, she presents an informative, balanced
history of milk production and consumption--how we get our milk and
why we drink so much of it."
--"E," Westport, CT
For over a century, America's nutrition authorities have
heralded milk as "nature's perfect food," as "indispensable" and
"the most complete food." These milk "boosters" have ranged from
consumer activists, to government nutritionists, to the American
Dairy Council and its ubiquitous milk moustache ads. The image of
milk as wholesome and body-building has a long history, but is it
accurate?
Recently, within the newest social movements around food, milk
has lost favor. Vegan anti-milk rhetoric portrays the dairy
industry as cruel to animals and milk as bad for humans. Recently,
books with titles like, "Milk: The Deadly Poison," and "Don't Drink
Your Milk" have portrayed milk as toxic and unhealthy.
Controversies over genetically-engineered cows and questions about
antibiotic residue have also prompted consumers to question whether
the milk they drink each day is truly good for them.
In Nature's Perfect FoodMelanie Dupuis illuminates these
questions by telling the story of how Americans came to drink milk.
We learn how cow's milk, which was associated with bacteria and
disease became a staple of the American diet. Along the way we
encounter 19th century evangelists who were convinced that cow's
milk was the perfect food with divine properties, brewers whose
tainted cow feed poisoned the milk supply, and informal wetnursing
networks that were destroyed with the onset of urbanization and
industrialization. Informative and entertaining, Nature's Perfect
Food will be the standard work on the history of milk.
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