Deborah Valenze is professor of history at Barnard College. She lives in Cambridge, MA.
"[A] serious work of history with great illustrations."—Marion
Nestle, The Atlantic
*The Atlantic.com*
“[A] stimulating cultural history.”—Nick Rennison, The Sunday
Times
*The Sunday Times*
“[A] fascinating history.”—Alex Renton, The Observer
*The Observer*
“Valenze’s book is an engagingly written and well-researched foray
into a huge territory, pulling a mass of material into sharp focus
and revealing milk as both strange and familiar.”—Nicola Humber,
Times Higher Education
*Times Higher Education*
"[Valenze's] documentation of milk’s transformation into the modern
product that underpins today’s hugely diverse dairy products
industry offers some insights and precedents useful in helping
address current food supply concerns."—Mark Knoblauch, Booklist
*Booklist*
“[C]omprehensive… covers everything from milk's role in mythology
to its effects on animal husbandry to its transformation into
cheese.”—Catherine Price, Slate
*Slate*
"An exceptionally well-crafted and intriguing history of milk's
career in human societies over the last three thousand years."
—Frank Trentmann, author of Free Trade Nation: Commerce,
Consumption and Civil Society in Modern Britain
*Frank Trentmann*
"A well-written, engaging, wry history of milk. No other book
covers the territory in quite the same way."—Amy Bentley, New York
University
*Amy Bentley*
"Milk is the place to go to begin understanding how we got from
dairy maids to industrial milk production and current debates about
the value of raw."—Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor of
Nutrition, NYU; author of Food Politics and What to Eat
*Marion Nestle*
"Milk is too rich to skim. From Hinduism’s sacred Cow of Plenty
through Mongol mare’s milk to the western world’s 'cow love' and
industrial milk production, Deborah Valenze’s history is always
engrossing and satisfying."—Elizabeth Abbott, author of Sugar: A
Bittersweet History
*Elizabeth Abbott*
"Simple, wholesome, daily fare? This epic saga will make you
rethink everything you thought you knew about milk – from the
health benefits and safety, to its nutritional value and hallowed
place in the American diet. This is an enourmous gulp of a history,
traversing many centuries and the myriad of attitudes toward milk
that could not possibly be more different than our own."—Ken
Albala, Co-Author of The Lost Art of Real Cooking
*Ken Albala*
"From Ancient Egyptian cow-god worshippers and breastfeeding saints
to the expansion of milk-drinking in Asia today, Valenze brings
together a world history of cultures and personalities that has
elevated milk to a magic substance in the Western, and Westernized,
imagination."—E. Melanie DuPuis, author of Nature's Perfect Food:
How Milk Became America's Drink
*E. Melanie DuPuis*
“The book is detailed and engaging, with plenty of eccentric
characters, from female Renaissance scholars supping with the
peasants to military men fighting over condensed milk for their
coffee.”—Louise Gray, The Daily Telegraph
*The Daily Telegraph*
"With scholarly precision, Valenze recounts the stories of such
worthies as Gail Borden, who industrialized the production of
condensed milk. She also quotes widely from historical and literary
sources. Her documentation of milk’s transformation into the modern
product that underpins today’s hugely diverse dairy products
industry offers some insights and precedents useful in helping
address current food supply concerns."—Mark Knoblauch, Booklist
*Booklist*
Won Honorable Mention for the 2011 New England Book Festival in the
General Non-Fiction category. This award is given by the JM
Northern Media family of festivals, and sponsored by the Larimar
St. Croix Writers Colony, eDivvy, Shophanista and Westside
Websites
*New England Book Festival*
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