The fascinating story of milk and all things dairy - with recipes throughout. Profoundly intertwined with human civilization, milk has a compelling story to tell, and historian Mark Kurlansky is the perfect person to tell it. Tracing the liquid's diverse history from antiquity to the present, he details its curious and crucial role in cultural evolution, religion, nutrition, politics, and economics. Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling "Cod" and "Salt".