Cities and milk consumption in Europe, 1890-1936: the emergence of a new market in Spain
One of the main features of the European nutritional transition involved the wide-spread increase in milk consumption, a singular process as it involved the emergence of new consumption preferences.This transformation will be examined here using Spain as a case study. Even up until the 1890s milk wa...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) |
| Repositorio: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:recercat.cat:20.500.12367/2441 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12367/2441 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Urbanization Milk consumption Food supply Europe |
| Sumario: | One of the main features of the European nutritional transition involved the wide-spread increase in milk consumption, a singular process as it involved the emergence of new consumption preferences.This transformation will be examined here using Spain as a case study. Even up until the 1890s milk was not considered a valuable dietary component in Spain, and was normally consumed only by those who were on liquid diets for medical reasons.By the 1930s,however,milk was regarded as a basic foodstuff, especially for children. Our main hypothesis is that cities played a central role in this change in preferences. [...] |
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