Sandhya patel biography of rory

This Sunday at 2pm you're invited to a special book chat event as part of our Spring Into Kingston / Love Your Bookshop Day weekend hosted by The Book Cow, Cook & Co and Winnings to chat about Milk by Matthew Evans in conversation with Karen Hardy from the Canberra Times. Milk is a powerful, entertaining and, at times, eviscerating commentary on the most controversial of original superfoods. It's in our coffee, on our cereal. We see it in processed form – yoghurt, butter, cheese, skimmed and lactose free. It's there in almond form, or made from oats or soy, and is as lauded as the 'perfect' food or lambasted as not fit for human consumption and a toxic planet killer, depending on who you trust. Which type you drink, whether you were raised on breastmilk, what you think of it, is affected by culture, biology and fashion. How you view it is driven by your gender and your politics, as well as your geography. The miracle liquid has suffered an image problem. It has been used to keep people poor, to keep women subjugated, and to build corporate and medical careers. It's been blamed for climate change, the breakdown of human health, and an enabler of the industrial revolution. From perfect food to pariah, milk's role in life has often been debased

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