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Author Percival, Bronwen, author.

Title Reinventing the wheel : milk, microbes, and the fight for real cheese / Bronwen Percival, Francis Percival.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series California studies in food and culture ; 65
California studies in food and culture ; 65.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue : the lost world -- Ecologies -- Real cheese -- The third rail -- Breed -- Feed -- Microbe farming -- Risk -- Cultures -- Families and factories -- Expertise -- Markets -- Reinventing the wheel.
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.
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Subject Cheesemaking.
Cheesemaking.
Cheesemaking -- Technological innovations.
Technological innovations.
Dairy farming -- Technological innovations.
Dairy farming -- Technological innovations.
Dairy farming.
Cheese -- Microbiology.
Cheese -- Microbiology.
Raw milk -- Microbiology.
Raw milk.
Microbiology.
Cheesemakers.
Cheesemakers.
Cheese industry.
Cheese industry.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Percival, Francis, 1978- author.
ISBN 9780520964464 (electronic book)
0520964462 (electronic book)
9780520290150
0520290151