Comments on: Let’s Take Back the World of Milk: Lead On, Anne Mendelson http://www.rachellaudan.com/2008/10/lets-take-back-the-world-of-milk-lead-on-anne-mendelson.html A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:24:18 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Rachel Laudan http://www.rachellaudan.com/2008/10/lets-take-back-the-world-of-milk-lead-on-anne-mendelson.html/comment-page-1#comment-2631 Rachel Laudan Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:01:33 +0000 http://www.rachellaudan.com/?p=601#comment-2631 What an interesting contrast. I'm going to think of some way of using this. What an interesting contrast. I’m going to think of some way of using this.

]]> By: Ji-Young Park http://www.rachellaudan.com/2008/10/lets-take-back-the-world-of-milk-lead-on-anne-mendelson.html/comment-page-1#comment-2611 Ji-Young Park Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:33:18 +0000 http://www.rachellaudan.com/?p=601#comment-2611 "The only milk available was not just pasteurized but homogenized and had Vitamin D added as well. No lovely layer of cream rose to the top." I drank milk copiously as a child. In the early 1970s, Korea didn't have an established "artisanal" or industrial dairy tradition. My mother had to boil the milk at home over a charcoal stove before I drank it. We didn't have a refrigerator either. In 1975 when we arrived in the States my family thought clean milk in sterile containers ready for consumption was one of the greatest things about American supermarkets. “The only milk available was not just pasteurized but homogenized and had Vitamin D added as well. No lovely layer of cream rose to the top.”

I drank milk copiously as a child. In the early 1970s, Korea didn’t have an established “artisanal” or industrial dairy tradition. My mother had to boil the milk at home over a charcoal stove before I drank it. We didn’t have a refrigerator either.

In 1975 when we arrived in the States my family thought clean milk in sterile containers ready for consumption was one of the greatest things about American supermarkets.

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