I guess I missed this over the summer, though I can't imagine how something so strange could have slipped through my Google Reader! Apparently, a dairy farm in France offers cheese made from human breast milk. I'm not entirely sure that I believe this, but a web site for the farm, Le Petit Singly, does exist in French. There's a post about it on Why Travel to France from last June, as well as a mentioning of that post here on Serious Eats -- but neither confirms the existence. According to a Wikipedia post, breast milk was sometimes consumed in the ancient world in fertility cults, and it's thinner and sweeter than milk from other mammals.
So if it does exist, there are certainly some questions to address. Firstly, would you taste it? And how would you eat it -- plain? On crackers? Would it mean an entire line of human breast milk products are on the horizon?
4-09-2008 @9:06PM Eric G said... I was under the impression that you couldn't make cheese from breast milk. Maybe they're mixing it with cow's milk.
See: http://www.indrani.net/index.php?q=2006/03/breast_milk_cheese
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4-09-2008 @8:29PM Adam said... how I'd eat it is a personal question, but I will say I'd be sure and ask before I used my teeth
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4-09-2008 @8:34PM unclejerry said... I would probably try it.. maybe.... It's gotta be ok and good for you right? Think about it, normally we eat and drink milk and cheese from cows and goats. Being humans shouldn't we be drinking human milk?
But it would still be creepy to try :o)
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4-10-2008 @1:16AM RCL1221 said... I'd give it a shot... who knows, maybe it's good.
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4-10-2008 @2:35AM Torin Vlietstra said... I'm so intrigued, I really want to try it. Heres the diet that they ask milk donors to go on.
100 G of bread (or cereals equivalent) at a rate of 60g the morning, 40g the afternoon,
cooked starchy food 200g midday,
100 G the evening,
green vegetables at will,
2 X 100 G of meat or equivalent (fish, eggs…),
2 fruits and a fruit juice,
2 X 40g of cheese and 3 dairy products (of cow exclusively).
In addition we take care that the donneuses ones:
do not smoke,
do not drink alcohol in excessive quantity,
do not make use of narcotics or domestic products likely to pass in in milk
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4-10-2008 @7:12AM kevjohn said... Babies drink it. How bad could it be? =)
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4-10-2008 @11:56AM Ian said... I think I've also seen beer made from...a particular strain of yeast from a lower portion of the female anatomy.
Yup, here it is:
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/content?oid=23587
Honestly, I was waiting for someone to make cheese with the same bacteria, but breast milk cheese is a pretty close second...
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4-10-2008 @11:59AM Ian said... Well, I had seen this earlier:
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/content?oid=23587
Beer fermented with a particular strain of yeast. This really doesn't surprise me. :)
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4-12-2008 @9:36AM Gobo said... Their site surprisingly doesn't talk much about how the stuff TASTES. I'd think that would be pretty important.
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