80 Items Tagged

Milk

Crowdie

This ancient, spreadable cheese is disappearing from Scottish cuisine.

Skal

Meet Japan's first milk soda.

Barraquito

This Canary Islands' specialty upgrades coffee with layers of condensed milk and liqueur.

Horlicks Malted Milk

This powder proved essential to Arctic exploration, war, and the ice cream parlor.

The sweet dish is often topped with raisins.

Dulce de Leche Cortada

This sweet, caramelized dessert comes from curdled milk.

Butter Lamps

In Tibetan temples, yak butter burns day and night.

A 19th-century illustration of a woman resting while her nurse brings her refreshments.

The 'Father of American Neurology' Prescribed Women Months of Motionless Milk-Drinking

Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Perkins Gilman were both patients of his infamous rest cure.

Abbey Perreault September 28, 2018

Tête de Moine

"Monk's Head" cheese requires a special shaver.

Kalvdans is often served with jam.

Kalvdans

A rare, rich pudding made from the milk of a cow who's just given birth.

A sleek side view of the farm, with the shrubby cow garden on top.

All Aboard the World's First Floating Dairy Farm

More sustainable food production may call for plopping cows on the water.

Abbey Perreault August 22, 2018

Kaymak atop a quince-based dessert.

Kaymak

Somewhere between butter and cream cheese, kaymak adds a fatty, creamy richness to everything.

Crumble-In

This soggy Southern snack combines cornbread and buttermilk in a single glass.

A spiked morir sonañdo.

Morir Soñando

“To die dreaming” tastes like an orange creamsicle.

Kama

The thrifty Estonian grain mix makes creamy drinks and candy bars.

Mursik

In Kenya, celebrations for victorious runners often begin with a sip of fermented milk.

<em>Het melkmeisje</em>, <em>The Milkmaid</em>, Johannes Vermeer c. 1660.

Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk

"Butter eater" was once a terrible insult.

Mark Kurlansky May 29, 2018

A monument to sgushyonka in Rogachev, Belarus, home to a factory that produces it.

Sgushyonka

This gooey, sweet treat was a Soviet staple.

Araga may be stored in an embossed leather flask called a kogeerzhik.

Araga

Traditional Tuvan booze is made from milk and distilled in a hollowed-out tree trunk.