![]() ![]() ![]() Ancient Middle Eastern cultures figured out how to sour milk deliberately to preserve it in hot climates. The significance Hindus see in cows has a simple logic: cows give milk, milk sustains life, cows give life. From her teats ran four rivers of milk that fed the emerging world. According to Norse legend, in the beginning there was a giant frost ogre named Ymir, who was sustained by a cow made from the thawing frost. The Fulani people of West Africa believe that the world started with a huge drop of milk from which everything else was created. ![]() Each drop became a speck of light, known to us as a star.Īs the distinguished food historian Mark Kurlansky tells us in his arresting new food history, numerous cultures around the globe have milk-based creation myths. In Ancient Greek mythology, the Milky Way was formed when Hera, the goddess of womanhood, spilled milk while breastfeeding. A sign of the elemental importance of this foodstuff is that our galaxy is called the Milky Way - and indeed the word ‘galaxy’ is derived from the Greek word for milk, gala. This has generated myriad products, from yoghurt and buttermilk through butter and cheese to toffee and ice cream, in many varied, culturally specific and resourceful forms. ![]() For tens of thousands of years, humans have been domesticating other mammals - cows, buffaloes, sheep, goats, camels, llamas, donkeys, yaks, horses - and keeping them for their milk. ![]()
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