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Reinventing the wheel : milk, microbes, and the fight for real cheese
- Title
- Reinventing the wheel : milk, microbes, and the fight for real cheese / Bronwen Percival, Francis Percival.
- Author
- Percival, Bronwen
- Publication
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Percival, Francis, 1978-
- Description
- xiii, 294 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Reinventing the Wheel is equal parts popular science, history, and muckraking. Over the past hundred and fifty years, dairy farming and cheesemaking have been transformed, and this book explores what has been lost along the way. Today, using cutting-edge technologies like high-throughput DNA sequencing, scientists are beginning to understand the techniques of our great-grandparents. The authors describe how geneticists are helping conservationists rescue rare dairy cow breeds on the brink of extinction, microbiologists are teaching cheesemakers to nurture the naturally occurring microbes in their raw milk rather than destroying them, and communities of cheesemakers are producing "real" cheeses that reunite farming and flavor, rewarding diversity and sustainability at every level."--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- California studies in food and culture ; 65
- Uniform Title
- California studies in food and culture ; 65.
- Alternative Title
- Milk, microbes, and the fight for real cheese
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-281) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue : the lost world -- Ecologies -- Real cheese -- The third rail -- Breed -- Feed -- Microbes -- Risk -- Cultures -- Families and factories -- Expertise -- Markets -- Reinventing the wheel.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-9546
- ISBN
- 9780520290150
- 0520290151
- 9781472955517
- 147295551X
- LCCN
- 2017006845
- OCLC
- 973481466
- Author
- Percival, Bronwen, author.
- Title
- Reinventing the wheel : milk, microbes, and the fight for real cheese / Bronwen Percival, Francis Percival.
- Publisher
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- California studies in food and culture ; 65California studies in food and culture ; 65.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-281) and index.
- Added Author
- Percival, Francis, 1978- author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-9546