The Health Life of BUTTER
By admin | May 8, 2007
Six thousand years of the yellow stuff you put on toast.
4000 BC: Nomads realise that sour milk shaken on a donkey’s back churns to butter.
1000 BC: Butter’s a bad omen for pagans, but the word derives from the Sanskrit ‘bhutari’, meaning ‘enemy of evil spirits’.
1253: Missionaries in Siberia drink kumiss - mare’s milk served with lumps of floating butter.
1600: In Northern Europe butter is said to prevent kidney and bladder stones.
1800: Butter is considered a privileged possession of the wealthy in England.
1940: War rationing makes butter hard o get. It’s seen as good for strength and energy.
1998: The American Heart Association says butter is a healthier and tastier altervative to margarine.
2003: the Atkins craze paves the way for butter’s comeback.
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