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Breast Milk Cheese: It's Baaaaack

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A sample of Simun's breast milk cheese
Remember when breast milk cheese became a thing for a few minutes last year? Well, it's back. Food-Tech interviews Miriam Simun, who they say "created human cheese as a way to engage people in conversation about biotechnology, food systems, and the human body." Her project began at NYU (it's unclear if this was after it was already being served up at NYC's Klee Brasserie), but she has plans to continue her research, so, grab some crackers!

Simun says she had two sources of breast milk for her experiment, "one woman lives here in New York, [and] I purchased the milk from the another woman, and she shipped it to me in ice, from Wisconsin. I am working to make a delicious Wisconsin human cheddar." Human cheddar... well, it's gotta be better than her NYC-centric City Funk cheese.

Ladies, she's currently trying to find more New York women to sell her their unused milk (after all, the locavore movement, so big right now). She says her goal is to make 100% local NYC cheese, "especially borough specific: I would love to see the Manhattan vs. Brooklyn Cheese-Off." Interesting—who do you think would win in a borough-wide breast milk cheese-off?

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  • Guest

    what's next, dick cheese?

  • Guest

    who you callin' dick cheese, jizz flan?!

  • love me some toe jam!

  • TheRealCannibal

    Why don't we have snacks made from dandruff and earwax? I see a new trend!

  • Isn't breast milk super sweet? I'd think it would be better suited for making ice cream than cheese.

  • F Englishman

    Breast milk ice cream caused something of a stir - and sold out pretty quickly - in London last year.

  • langleycollyer

    "Breast Milk Ice Cream: Betcha Can't Have Just Two."

  • TheRealCannibal

    That will go nicely with my jism flan.

  • langleycollyer

    Finally, a use for breasts.

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