Dairy and Beverages

Milk is one our most versatile foods, not only as a beverage but even more importantly as a cooking and baking ingredient and as a raw material for the production of a wide array of other foods, including cream, butter, and hundreds of kinds of cheese.

This chapter identifies and describes the many dairy products used regularly in the kitchen and gives guidelines for handling, storing, and cooking with them. The last section of the chapter describes the many types of cheese produced in North America and Europe and gives examples of each type.