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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Hernández-Adell, Ismael, Pujol, Josep
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
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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. [...]