Process and Low-fat Cheeses
Cheese and HealthWhat better subject for the first chapter than
the food with which we all begin our lives?
Humans are mammals, a word that means
“creatures of the breast,” and the first food
that any mammal tastes is milk. Milk is food
for the beginning eater, a gulpable essence
distilled by the mother from her own more
variable and challenging diet. When our
ancestors took up dairying, they adopted the
cow, the ewe, and the goat as surrogate
mothers. These creatures accomplish the
miracle of turning meadow and straw into
buckets of human nourishment. And their
milk turned out to be an elemental fluid rich
in possibility, just a step or two away from
luxurious cream, fragrant golden butter, and a
multitude of flavorful foods concocted by
friendly microbes.
No wonder that milk captured the