Trendy bistro offers breast milk cheese

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A trendy New York bistro is making breast milk cheese with possible gelato ice cream on the menu soon. Picture: John Feder

Breast milk cheese with figs & paprika’Tastes like cow’s milk cheese’Hopes to make breast milk gelato

A CHEF at a trendy New York bistro is letting diners munch on fig and paprika cheese made from his wife's breast milk.

Daniel Angerer, who runs Klee Brasserie in the city’s Chelsea neighbourhood, stated customers started demanding his custom-made "human cheese" after he blogged about his efforts to make it, the New York Post reported.

"The phone was ringing off the hook," the chef explained. "So I prepared a tiny canape of breast milk cheese with figs and Hungarian pepper."

"It tastes like cow’s milk cheese, kind of sweet," he added, noting that the flavour depends on what the cheese is served with and "what the mom eats."

The response among those who tried the cheese was described as generally positive, even though many customers were too squeamish to attempt it.

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"I think a lot of the criticism has to do with the combination of sex and cheese, but … the breast is there to make food," stated Lori Mason, Angerer’s wife, who is mom to the couple’s 10 week old daughter Arabella.

The restaurant was inundated with creepy queries since it began offering customers a taste, she said.

"Some people who clearly have issues have … emailed me saying, ‘I was not breastfed as a child, so can I taste your breast milk?’" she said.

Mason politely declined the offers.

"I’m not here to walk people through their psychological problems," she said.

That said, Mason is now prodding Angerer to make gelato out of her milk.

New York health chiefs stated that even though department codes do not explicitly forbid the practice, they advised Angerer to refrain from sharing his wife’s milk with the world.

"The restaurant knows that cheese made from breast milk is not for public consumption, whether sold or given away," a spokeswoman for the city Department of Health said.

source : www.news.com.au