Ian Sansom

A 50-year obsession with the white stuff: Milk, by Peter Blegvad, reviewed

A lifetime obsession with milk has resulted in 350 numbered, lightly edited and loosely connected remarks about milk, its colour, its smell and much else. Weird or what?

Glowing, elemental, otherworldly and full of natural goodness: Blegvad’s book is a ‘portrait of the self, mediated through milk’. [Alamy]

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