In the modern pantry pantheon, milk occupies a curious place. It's right up there with bread as one of the most basic and important foodstuffs in the West. In the US, when storms and hurricanes threaten, stores run out of bread, toilet paper - and milk.
But widespread milk drinking is actually a rather recent development. In Europe and the United States in the 19th Century, the people who were supposed to consume cows' milk regularly were primarily children. A tall, frosty glass of the stuff alongside every person's breakfast plate would have been decidedly strange.
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