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    Milk! The 'Most Over-Argued Food In History'

    Author Mark Kurlansky discusses his new book Milk! with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro, and the roots of modern debates on dairy.
    by Lulu Garcia-Navarro May 06, 2018 2 minutes

    Milk is not the unassuming refrigerator staple you may have thought it was. In fact, debates about milk touch on a host of topics — cultural, genetic, medicinal, and economic — that have been going on for centuries and continue today.

    NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro sat down with author Mark Kurlansky to discuss his new: , and unpack some of the controversies surrounding what he calls "the most over-argued food in history."

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