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  1. Mark Kurlansky _ Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food

    Infants who were suckled by the same wet nurse were regarded as milk siblings and were forbidden by the Assyrians from intermarrying.
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  2. Mark Kurlansky _ Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food

    Our galaxy is called the Milky Way, and both it and the word "galaxy" have their origins in the Greek word for milk, gala.
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  3. Mark Kurlansky _ Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food

    French butter makes better pastry than American butter because it contains more fat and less water.
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  4. Mark Kurlansky _ Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food

    The leading articulator of this rich diet, the last preindustrial British cuisine, was Hannah Glasse, whose books were so popular that Dr. Johnson claimed there was no such person and Hannah Glasse must be the nom de plume of a man. But Hannah did exist, she was a woman, and she cooked with endless quantities of cream and butter.
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  5. Mark Kurlansky _ Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food

    Modern nutritionists also warn against eating cheese in excess because of its high fat and cholesterol content."
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  6. Mark Kurlansky _ Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food

    Scientists estimate that between 1945 and 1958, the power of the nuclear weapons exploded in the world was equal to eight hundred times the power of the Hiroshima bomb. With each explosion, tiny particles that could not be seen, not even with a high-powered microscope, entered the atmosphere and traveled the world. Some of this so-called radioactive fallout dissipated, but some didn't, including strontium-90, which accumulates in bones, especially the unformed bones of children, and can cause cancer, leukemia, or premature aging; and iodine-131, which accumulates in thyroid glands and can also cause cancer. This fallout landed on the plants that cows ate, and it passed on into their milk and into anyone who drank that milk.
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  7. Mark Kurlansky _ Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food

    In fact, the entire breastfeeding issue was an early version of the modern abortion issue, with men trying to make the decisions about what women should do with their bodies.
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  8. Mark Kurlansky _ Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food

    The most famous ice cream shop in Italy, and now the oldest continuously operated café in the world, was Florian in Piazza San Marco in Venice. It was opened in 1720.
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  9. Mark Kurlansky _ Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food

    is significant that the first attempt to build a refrigerator in the United States was undertaken for keeping butter {as opposed to what happened in Australia, where in 1853 James Harrison, a Scot who had moved there, developed the first really fully functional refrigerator and used it for chilling beer}.
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  10. Mark Kurlansky _ Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food

    Cows are the leading source of hamburger meat in America. Dairy cows are very lean because they put everything into producing milk, so they make good lean ground meat.
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  11. Mark Kurlansky _ Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food

    The big culprit is methane gas, which, although it does not get as much attention as carbon dioxide, is more than twenty times as destructive in terms of climate change.
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  12. Mark Kurlansky _ Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food

    Often the inventor that history remembers is not the true inventor, but the one who made the idea commercially successful. Thomas Edison didn't invent the lightbulb either.
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