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This cheese was made from breast milk. No, really. Credit: chefdanielangerer.typepad.com
Chef Daniel Angerer, breast milk fan. Credit: chefdanielangerer.typepad.com
So we had to ask the famed chef: Any plans to serve it in your restaurant?
"The FDA probably wouldn't allow it," Angerer tells ParentDish in a phone interview. Angerer also tells us that Alton Brown made butter out of his wife's breast milk (Alton's wife, not Daniel's).
"I'm considering doing another batch," Angerer tells ParentDish. This time around, he says he would age it longer.
What about flavors?
"Spring is coming, I guess herbs."
He also tells us (shocker) that a lot of people can't get over the idea that the cheese is made from breast milk.
"Being a chef," he tells New York magazine's Grub Street blog, "you're curious about anything in terms of flavor -- you look out for something new and what you can do with it."
But how does it taste? Gouda?
"After two weeks aging, it was somewhat like a raw-milk cheese -- it had all the flavors in there. It tastes just like really sweet cow's milk," Angerer, who says his wife's milk reminds him of the cow's milk that he had as a child in Austria, explains. "It wasn't like, 'Hey, this is such an amazing cheese.' It's just like, 'Can you use human milk? Yes, you absolutely can!'"
Care to whip up a batch of your own? Good news! Angerer has posted the recipe for "My Spouse's Mommy Milk" on his blog (along with a ridiculously cute photo of his baby girl in a pink hoodie with bunny ears).
On his blog, Angerer writes, "... my spouse actually thinks of donating some to an infant milk bank, which could help little babies in Haiti and such, but for the meantime (the milk bank requires check-ups which takes a little while) our small freezer ran out of space. To throw it out would be like wasting gold." (Any woman who has ever wrestled with a breast pump can attest to that.)
While breast-milk cheese sounds more palatable than, say, placenta panini, we think this is one case where, hi-ho, the derry-o, the cheese should stand alone.
Would you eat breast-milk cheese?
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ReaderComments (Page 3 of 3)
3-08-2010 @ 10:51AM
Dean said...Just another nasty cook.
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3-07-2010 @ 9:38PM
marianne said...At one time I had too much breast milk, so rather than throw it out, I offered it to my German Shepherd dog. She would not touch it. No way! I was so insulted! She would sneak and eat the 'breaded' with sand cat poop from the litter box but would not drink the nourishing breast milk. What a reject!!
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3-11-2010 @ 2:52PM
Rebeca Four said...I love this man! Can we clone him. This is fantastic. While I do not consume any cross species dairy, I would certainly and hapilly eat this delicacy. I wish my daughter's father, who is also a chef, would have done this for me.
Bon Appettite!
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3-10-2010 @ 11:38AM
Michelle said...Wow, lots of cultural baggage on display here. I never made cheese or anything from mine, but I tasted it and it was quite good. Can people at least think about just how culturally biased they are in favor of their own status quo?
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3-09-2010 @ 11:32AM
Nexxus said...I think that everyone has the right to have their own opinion, the right to disagree. I feel that we can and should put our views forward respectfully and tactfully. There is really no excuse for slander and rudeness. He is not serving it to the public,he is making it with loving intention for his family, it is for personal use, why does anyone really care! What does it say about our society that we are disgusted by a food that was meant to give to our children. That evolves as the needs of our "baby" evolves. Dr Mike said it right "Like all fresh bright ideas, once the 'one hundreth monkey mind power', is out into the stratosphere, their is no stopping progress!"
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3-09-2010 @ 1:42PM
Brea said...My own? Absolutely. I am surprised it took this long for someone to make this idea a reality. Let me get on my "milk" crate. (read on skeptics) Having nursed all my children, I have myself made some cool ideas for my nurslings. Frozen mamapops for the teething baby, cold soothes the gums, and 100% nutritious; mamaCustard for a snack; as well as milk for their cereal; milk for their smashed potatoes. Whatever calls for milk in their recipes, I WAS there for my kiddos. Mother's milk grows with the child, changing protein/fat levels along with the child's nutritional needs. Even giving an extra bolus of immunoglobulins at 18 months. When mama is expecting again, the milk changes again to precious newborn colostrum (liquid gold) and gives little one what she needs. Every wet diaper, all filled pants, every tear, spit and drool drop are brought to you by mother's milk, proof positive that you ARE what you eat. In retrospect, my children remember their nursing experience, and have benefited greatly knowing how I loved them enough to share my gift with them. One of my children has a congenital metabolic disorder (PKU) that he could not metabolize phenylalanine into taurine or tyrosine, so my milk gave him those LIVE amino acids, and strengthened his synapses and prevented damage. Besides, it was good enough for God's own son, Jesus. That alone is good enough for me! Now, for the downside of eating another mama's milkcheese. Even though the same genetics that grew my children also fed my children, they did not grow another's. The genetic make-up is unique to everyone, and some may have reservations (not at mom's the kitchen) to ingest/digest someone foreign to them. Personally, having fully grown (and lost some along the way) brain cells, I would choose to eat foreing cusine. But, hey, we all have our own personal tastes and choices. Life is a God-given right, and free will, and how we choose to use it, right? Go Mama, go mama!
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3-11-2010 @ 6:40PM
Bob said...You thought breast milk recipes were bad -- check out the recipe for "Raw Chicken Compote" at YouTube.com/CookingWithClaudia
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5-12-2010 @ 12:34AM
booboo said...Maybe the taste of the milk comes from the womans diet.I lived with my wife,seperated now,but milked her for about 20 years,and I thought it was exelent,thin and not fatty like a cows.Our own body shouldn't be discrimulated what so ever,personaly I wouldn't take a cow to bed,but her milk sure should make very fine products and be very healthy,a cow should be more shamefull than our mate.
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