Transcript: A Culinary History Of 'Milk Through The Ages'

TERRY GROSS
NPR Fresh Air
12-15-2008
A Culinary History Of 'Milk Through The Ages'

Host: TERRY GROSS
Time 12:00-1:00 PM


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TERRY GROSS, host:

Milk is our first food after we arrive in this world. How we started drinking the milk of other species, like cows and goats, and how people around the world started making milk into cheese and yogurt, is the subject of the new book, "Milk" by Anne Mendelson. The book includes recipes and a lot of information about how milk in America is processed today.

You know, those of us who are used to just drinking, you know, the kind of milk that you get in the supermarket, don't think of milk as being a very complex taste or a very varied taste. It's ...

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