Bee Wilson on milk and food safety
Bee Wilson brings a historian’s eye to the problem of the adulteration of milk in China in an op-ed in the New York Times. It’s based on research she did…
Read morePreserving Milk in Mexican History: Sweets versus Cheese
And addendum to my post on cheese in Mexican history. A classic way of preserving milk in Mexico (as in India) was to boil it down until the milk sugars…
Read moreSmall Dairies in Mexico
A quick calculation with very round numbers. Maximum of 400 liters in the truckdelivering milk to the artisanal cheese maker. That’s about 100 gallons. Assume the cows on these farms…
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