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Milk trails round Euston

Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.

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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India

Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.

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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK

Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.

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Queer cafés and gay mylk

Holly Regan explores queer London spaces where the alternative – oat milk – is the norm for the communities gathering there.

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  • Mellin's Food for infants and invalids : dissolved in diluted cow's milk as directed is acknowledged to be the best substitute for mother's milk : directions for use... / Mellin's Food Limited.
  • Opuntia humifusa Raf. Cactaceae Eastern prickly pear, Indian fig. Distribution: Eastern North America. Stearns (1801) reports 'OPUNTIA a species of cactus. The fruit is called the prickly pear. If eaten it turns the urine and milk in women's breast red'. This is likely to be Opuntia robusta. The ripe fruits are reported edible, raw, and the leaf pads also, either raw or cooked. The fine spines, glochids, cause severe skin irritation so should be wiped off or burnt off prior to cooking and eating. Moerman (1998) reports that O. hemifusa was widely used by Native American tribes for wounds, burns, snakebite, warts (fruit), and as a mordant for dyes used on leather. Widely used, with the spines removed, as a famine food, and dried for winter use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Opuntia humifusa Raf. Cactaceae Eastern prickly pear, Indian fig. Distribution: Eastern North America. Stearns (1801) reports 'OPUNTIA a species of cactus. The fruit is called the prickly pear. If eaten it turns the urine and milk in women's breast red'. This is likely to be Opuntia robusta. The ripe fruits are reported edible, raw, and the leaf pads also, either raw or cooked. The fine spines, glochids, cause severe skin irritation so should be wiped off or burnt off prior to cooking and eating. Moerman (1998) reports that O. hemifusa was widely used by Native American tribes for wounds, burns, snakebite, warts (fruit), and as a mordant for dyes used on leather. Widely used, with the spines removed, as a famine food, and dried for winter use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Fifteen stages in the production and consumption of milk from the Laiterie des Propriétaires Réunis. Colour lithograph, 190-.
  • Fifteen stages in the production and consumption of milk from the Laiterie des Propriétaires Réunis. Colour lithograph, 190-.
  • Liquid annatto : for imparting a rich natural tint to cheese, cream and milk ... for coloring fish.
  • The 'Allenburys' foods for infants, diet for adults : calendar blotter, March 1909 / Allen & Hanburys Ltd.
  • The 'Allenburys' foods for infants, diet for adults : calendar blotter, March 1909 / Allen & Hanburys Ltd.
  • Horlicks transition modulator : price, one shilling : the keys to health / Horlicks Malted Milk Company.
  • Horlicks transition modulator : price, one shilling : the keys to health / Horlicks Malted Milk Company.
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