Milk (Food)

by Dorothy Turner (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1988

  $11.77

  This book belongs to the Food series which is designed to introduce younger children to all aspects of everyday foods. Taking the theme of a familar food, each book examines the reasons why we eat it, how and where it is grown and produced, its nutritional value, who eats it and where, and its historical background. This book in the series explains how milk is taken from cows and then made into such items as cheese, butter and yoghurt. It also provides some interesting recipes that include milk. We learn about the different cows that produce milk and the various methods used to obtain the milk, the workings of a dairy and the pasteurizing methods which make cows milk suitable for human consumption. The reader is also introduced to the importance of milk in history in countries all over the world. Dorothy Turner is also author of Bread , Eggs and Potatos in the same series.