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“Melanie DuPuis does a great job of telling how milk came to be seen as central to the American diet. Milk has an amazing cultural apparatus around it. In the United States, most people would recognize the key elements of the milk industry’s marketing campaign—the familiar ‘milk moustache’ and the slogan ‘milk does the body good.’ Melanie DuPuis tells the story of the marketing of milk in the context of immigration to the United States.” Read more...
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Between Meals
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All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Present
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