Claire's Reviews > Milk: The Truth, the Lies and the Unbelievable Story of the Original Superfood

I love a deep dive book like this usually, and this book is an interesting exploration of milk as a human food source. I was hoping it might reach the soaring heights of The Secret Life of Groceries but it was not to be. Fair warning going in this book is heavily biased towards dairy (and this is acknowledged repeatedly by the author to his credit), and is also fairly zealous in its promotion of breastmilk over its alternatives. At a more sensitive moment in my parenting life I’d have found that quite overwhelming. As a drinker of plant milk, I found some of the discussion of the production and nutritional makeup of these alternatives interesting, but wasn’t convinced the author had a deep or broad understanding of the varied reasons some people might preference such options. An interesting read but one to be mindful when picking up.