Why you simply must pour yourself a glass of raw milk 

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You never forget your first sip. Of raw milk that is, fresh from the cow, simply filtered, cooled and bottled. 

No pasteurisation, homogenisation or standardisation, meaning it still contains the full complement of vitamins, minerals and natural digestive enzymes as well as providing the most lusciously creamy mouthful of pure dairy delight; rich, sweet and voluptuously full bodied.

For someone who was ambivalent about milk, the raw stuff was a revelation. And that revelation came courtesy of Stephen Hook, a fourth-generation Sussex dairy farmer, 온라인슬롯 way back in 2011 at Selfridges, in London.

A manager of the store’s food hall had tried his raw milk at the Abergavenny Food Festival, fallen in love and, after a few meetings sorting out the legalities (the law stated that raw milk could ‘only be sold from the farm premises’), it agreed that Mr Hook could rent some floor space in Selfridges’ food hall, install his own raw-milk vending machine and sell direct to his customers.

And it was from that machine, after plugging my coin into the slot and filling up my own glass bottle, I took my first taste. The punters couldn’t get enough. ‘For 50 years, the pasteurising industry had been bedevilling the image of raw milk as a dangerous food,’ explains Mr Hook.

For someone who was ambivalent about milk, the raw stuff was a revelation

And it was from that machine, after plugging my coin into the slot and filling up my own glass bottle, I took my first taste. The punters couldn’t get enough

But then, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) demanded that the machine was removed from Selfridges because it was illegal. It wasn’t – as by renting the space, Mr Hook was selling from his premises.

Anyway, to cut an epic story short, thanks to circumstances beyond Mr Hook’s control (and involving an entirely unrelated issue), he withdrew the machine in March 2012, although Selfridges agreed the venture had been a great success and no laws had been broken.

However, the prejudice against raw milk goes back many years, a mixture of scare stories, misinformation and, once upon a time, some very legitimate fears, too.

‘The idea that raw milk is unsafe and poisonous is ingrained in the British psyche,’ says Jon Cook, who runs Dora’s Dairy in Wiltshire with his wife Sarah. ‘But there was a good reason for pasteurisation.

‘During the Industrial Revolution, when dairies moved into towns, the cows were fed brewery and bakery waste, not grass. And they became ill. And ill cows produce ill milk.’

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