New York Restaurant Owner Introduces Breast-Milk Cheese
David Angerer, owner of the New York City restaurant Klee Brasserie (which is just a stone's throw from the excellent all-vegan restaurant Blossom), is making headlines with his newest menu offering: "Mommy's Milk" cheese, made possible by his lactating wife.
(Let the punning commence.)
This certainly isn't the first squeeze push to promote human milk. If you've stayed abreast of the PETA Files for a while, you might remember that after a Swiss restaurant named Storchen introduced a menu featuring human breast-milk edibles, PETA was inspired to ask ice-cream giant Ben & Jerry's to switch from unhealthy bovine juice stolen from tormented calves (aka "cow milk") to healthier, humane human breast milk.
Dairy-lovin' naysayers, don't knock(er) it until you try it. In fact, David Angerer is inviting anyone who's interested to try his titillating creation. I'm thinking that this trend might finally catch on. What do you say? Would you care for some no-cowlone and crackers?
Posted by Karin Bennett
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I guess where there is a will, there's a whey (Ooooh!).
Some of the same concerns over cow's milk might leak into human breast milk. For example, if the provider was taking certain medications it would be interesting. Would the milk from a woman who has been taking Prozac, for example, be more or less mellow? Would the cheese made from the milk of a woman taking stimulants for ADHD be more like a form of Jack?
I do have a serving suggestion. Perhaps it would get more support if it were presented in a bra cup.
...but they had better follow food safety regulations .
People eat all sorts of odd things. Breast milk isn't even in the top ten!
Dear readers, this is a gigantic, but recurring hoax. Human milk is quite unsuitable for making milk, because it lacks the right kind of protein to do so, Milk proteins are mainly whey and casein. In bovine milk (and goat, sheep, camel, ...) the main is casein and that is perfect for making cheese. Human milk is primairily whey and that simply does not curdle. In order to make cheese out of human milk you literally would need tons of milk to extract enough casein to make cheese. I doubt if there is any one single woman who is able to produce these amounts of milk to feed the clientele of a restaurant.
You could probably mix it with other sorts of milk, or additives like various sorts of starches, to make something that is as much like cheese as the vaguely cheese-like substance we get on McDonald's cheeseburgers. :)
I don't think so. The cheese-ish stuff on burgers has been cheese to start with, is melted and had stuff added to stay gummy.
You could try and cook the milk and make some pudding like stuff and call that cheese, ofcourse
Human milk is surely healthier for humans than any other kind. I just hope its sources are paid a decent wage for their time and product.
... lines of Chinese women getting paid pennies an hour so that westerners can enjoy their breastmilk.
But, as long as its coming from a fairly paid source, I'm cool with it.
As long as this is nothing as bland as American cheese or Velvetta. And does it contain cow growth hormone? Is this a trend towards cheese made from the milk of other mammals besides cows, sheep, goats and buffalo (mozzarella)? Skunk milk cheese would be some stinky cheese!
According to Orthodox Jewish law (which forbids eating meat and dairy products together), human breast milk is considered "parve" -- in neither category. (Therefore, a nursing toddler is allowed to nurse even while nibbling on meat products.) However, I've heard that under normal circumstances, only infants are allowed to consume human breast milk.
However, did the Poskim (deciders of questions about Jewish law) ever consider the permissibility of adults eating _cheese_ made from human breast milk? If not, then before they get a chance to forbid it we should establish the custom of adult Orthodox Jews eating such cheese. (Vegetarian rennet would have to be used in its production; Chalav Yisrael considerations would also have to apply..)
This way, Orthodox Jews might finally be able to consume kosher cheeseburgers and a wider variety of pizzas.
Of course, the use of liposuction fat as a replacement for lard is an entirely separate issue.