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The Past and The Curious: A History Podcast for Kids and Families

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The Past and The Curious: A History Podcast for Kids and Families

The Past and The Curious History Podcast for Kids

Kids & Family

4.52.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Episode 93: Milk has been a lot of things through the years, but it was often poisonous, spoiled or both. Learn about how far we've come in making milk safe, and who may or may not have helped us get to the root cause of what was making milk dangerous. From Dr. Anna Bixby and the mystery of Milk Sickness to Gail Borden who invented condensed milk, it's been a long road to your grocery store.

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, it's summertime, and a lot of people are putting together summer reading lists.

0:06.5

A lot of students are going to have to do some reading this summer so you know you don't have the summer slide hey if you're looking for a book to read this

0:15.8

summer I know a good one I wrote it it's called I see Lincoln's underpants you can

0:21.2

get it wherever books are sold well sort of because I don't have a major

0:25.2

publisher. So most bookstores you're not going to walk into them and find it but you can order it on

0:30.8

bookshop.com you can order it you could ask them to order it for you

0:35.3

or you could ask your local library to order it as well and then all sorts of people could

0:40.5

enjoy it. I would love it if you read it this summer and I think you would enjoy it

0:44.9

if you haven't read it already. I mean you haven't read it already have you? That's I see

0:51.1

Lincoln's underpants by Mick Sullivan.

0:53.4

Illustrated by Suki Anderson.

0:55.4

Find out more at the Past and the Curious.com.

0:57.5

I've got a tab right at the top of the page.

0:59.6

I see Lincoln's underpants.

1:10.0

We've all been there. You're standing in a museum, staring at a painting, and all you can think is, I don't get it. To me, knowing the story behind an artwork is a huge part of knowing how to look at it.

1:16.1

I'm Amanda, the host of the Art of History podcast, where we view history through the lens of some really great works of art. Each episode we dive deep into the bigger picture behind some familiar and maybe not so familiar pieces. Check out art of history now wherever you get your podcasts.

1:35.3

You're listening to an airwave media podcast.

1:38.6

Well, howdy everybody? It's Mick Sullivan, and this is The Past and the Curious.

1:47.0

Episode 93. This episode is about milk, but it's not about good milk. It's about bad milk. It's about something called milk sickness. It's about something

1:56.7

that people did. It's about a couple things that people did to make milk less dangerous to drink

2:01.9

because for a long period of time it was really, really dangerous.

2:06.3

Milk wasn't alone in that regard. There were all sorts of things that were more dangerous,

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