It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a scoop of ice cream can be a Proustian draft of youth's innocence and energy and possibility, while a morsel of fine cheese is a rich meditation on maturity, the fulfillment of possibility, the way of all flesh.

On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2007) - ISBN: 9781416556374