Re: Holiday Food NOW milk

Gee that does sound tasty. Seriously, maybe Northern Europe was the only
place w/ a cool enough climate that milk didn't spoil in 15 1/2 seconds.
Anywhere warm, you have to drink it fresh squeezed as it were, or it
would spoil. Reckon?


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:51:13 -0500

>Oh, yummy.
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
>To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 5:25 PM
>Subject: Re: [CHAT] Holiday Food NOW milk
>
>
>> USDA says cheese making originated in the Middle East. Travelers toting
>> milk in skins made from the stomachs of camels. Residual rennet in the
>> stomach curdled the milk.
>>
>> On Wednesday, December 31, 2003, at 12:38 PM, cathy carpenter wrote:
>>
>> > Quite frankly, I don't know, and I don't know if any studies have been
>> > done. Your theory makes a lot of sense, though. Milk (of any sort) is
>> > food for babies of whatever species, so after weaning, most have no
>> > exposure to it. It may be that only in Northern Europe did peoples
>> > exploit unmodified milk as a food source beyond infancy.
>> > Cathy
>> > On Wednesday, December 31, 2003, at 12:44 AM, Melody wrote:
>> >
>> >> Cathy: Why do you suppose this milk intolerance exists in these other
>> >> populations? Is it because once they are weaned from mother's milk,
>> >> there isn't a steady supply of it...so they rapidly lose whatever
>> >> tolerance they have to lactose?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Melody, IA (Z 5/4)
>> >>
>> >> "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
>> >> --Albert Einstein
>> >>
>> >>  --- On Tue 12/30, cathy carpenter < cathyc@rnet.com > wrote:
>> >> From: cathy carpenter [mailto: cathyc@rnet.com]
>> >> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> >> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:03:24 -0600
>> >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Holiday Food
>> >>
>> >> Most folks of northern European heritage can drink milk throughout
>> >> <br>their lives, but the vast majority of the human population cannot
>> >> <br>tolerate milk after the age of 5...they lose the ability to digest
>> >> milk <br>sugar, lactose. The result? Very uncomfortable cramping and
>> >> diarrhea.<br>Cathy<br><br>On Monday, December 29, 2003, at 04:16 PM,
>> >> Jesse Bell wrote:<br><br>> Hmmm, must be the "Kraut" in me......my
>> >> mother is German....but I just <br>> LOVE sauerkraut. And on my
>> >> father's
>> >> side...Scotch....so I love <br>> cooked cabbage too....and coleslaw. I
>> >> just pretty much love cabbage. <br>> I cook it all the time...kids
>> >> love
>> >> it too...except for Robert's <br>> youngest, who is a very picky
>> >> eater.
>> >> She doesn't even drink <br>> milk.....now that's just WRONG. I can't
>> >> imagine life without THAT!!! <br>> So I buy her the orange juice with
>> >> vitamin C and D in it.<br>><br>> Jesse Rene' Bell<br>> Claremore,
>> >> OK<br>> Zone
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