Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic and culinary story of milk and all things dairy – with recipes throughout
Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling author of Cod, Salt, Paper, The Basque History of the World, 1968, The Big Oyster, International Night, The Eastern Stars, A Continent of Islands, and The White Man in the Tree and Other Stories. He received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonviolence, Bon Appetit’s Food Writer of the Year Award, the James Beard Award, and the Glenfiddich Award. Salt was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. He spent ten years as Caribbean correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He lives in New York City. www.markkurlansky.com.
[A] wonderfully wide-ranging study
*Guardian*
[A] rich, fascinating and comprehensive history ... [A] highly
readable volume, stuffed with colourful historical facts from all
corners of the globe and epochs
*Spectator*
A feat of investigation, compilation and organization ...
Altogether a complex and rich survey, Milk! is a book well worth
nursing.
*Wall Street Journal*
A treasure trove of fascinating details
*The Times*
The sort of book that Proust might have written had Proust become
distracted by the madeleine ... you step away from this book with a
new vantage on history
*New York Times Book Review*
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