RaveThe Wall Street JournalMilk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas is a feat of investigation, compilation and organization, given that there have been such diverse ideas about milk’s production, sale, use, safety and healthfulness world-wide. Cramming this much historical minutiae into 20 chapters can make the book feel disjointed at times, but Kurlansky fans expect and enjoy his generous narratives, chock-full of curious if occasionally digressing facts ... The library of food history already has two fine books on milk...but Mark Kurlansky’s contribution goes further and deeper, especially in the realm of modern global and political milk developments. The book stands apart too with travel entries from the author’s firsthand probes in far-flung dairy lands. Altogether a complex and rich survey, Milk! is a book well worth nursing.
