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Author DuPuis, E. Melanie (Erna Melanie), 1957- author.

Title Nature's perfect food : how milk became America's drink / E. Melanie DuPuis
Published New York : New York University Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (x, 310 pages :) : illustrations
Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. I Consumption -- 1. Why Milk? -- 2. The Perfect Food Story -- 3. Why Not Mother? The Rise of Cow's Milk as Infant Food in Nineteenth-Century America -- 4. The Milk Question: Perfecting Food as Urban Reform -- 5. Perfect Food, Perfect Bodies -- pt. II Production -- 6. Perfect Farming: The Industrial Vision of Dairying -- 7. The Less Perfect Story: Diversity and Farming Strategies -- 8. Crisis: The "Border-Line" Problem -- 9. Alternative Visions of Dairying: Productivism and Producerism in New York, Wisconsin, and California -- 10. The End of Perfection
Analysis "Multi-User"
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-296)
Notes Print version record
Subject Food habits -- United States -- History
Dairy industry -- United States -- History
Milk -- Social aspects
Milk -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
COOKING -- General.
Food habits
Milk
Milk -- Social aspects
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2001004677
ISBN 9780814785423
0814785425