Juggs, it does a bechamel sauce good?
Thank goodness, saner minds rule the day.
Swiss authorities have intervened, banning Hans Locher from serving breast milk in his Winterthur restaurant, Storchen—why yes, that does translate to “stork” in English.
The manager/chef had experimented years ago on his wife’s breast milk and decided to revamp some of those recipes for cream-based soups and sauces when he noticed an influx of mothers in the neighborhood. Um, Herr Crazy? Mothers don’t drink breast milk, nor do they necessarily inspire others to do so—unless it’s their own infants!
Apparently, Locher crossed the line when he advertised a rate of SFr16.25 for a liter of breast milk (roughly $54.88 for a gallon). “Humans are not on the list of authorized milk suppliers such as cows or sheep,” sayeth food/health department officials. Obviously, because humans haven’t been pumped full of rBGH and all those other robust hormones…yet.
Hey, I know times are tough and the price of dairy has been consistently going up since last year, but we have yet to reach the Dust Bowl and the culminating tableau from Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath.” No one should be getting any fuddy-duddy ideas. All these late-blooming frozen yogurt shops desperate for a new gimmick? I’m looking at you.
—Jiyeon Yoo