Written explicitly for undergraduates, Re-imagining Milk demonstrates how a particular commodity can be used to illustrate ethnocentric beliefs about the universal goodness of milk, biological variation in human populations, political and economic processes that inform dietary policies, nutrition education, and current trends in globalization, the utility of a biocultural approach to the study of food, the cultural construction of a commodity that is consumed by many students on a daily basis, or if not, certainly is one that students "know" they "should" consume daily.