Rude Food by Vir Sanghvi: A kiss and a curdle

The world is now realising what India has long known: Milk is healthy, boiling kills germs, cheese is safe. Forget fanatics and fads.

All over the world, nutritionists and food companies are coming to a conclusion that you and I might find a little surprising: Milk is great!

All that stuff about dairy fat being bad and raising cholesterol levels has been dialled down. (SHUTTERSTOCK)

Americans who enjoy cookies with milk are now told to throw away the cookies but to drink the milk. (SHUTTERSTOCK)

Milk sales are up and those of its imitators or substitutes are either stagnant or falling. (SHUTTERSTOCK)

Without milk there would be no mithai. (SHUTTERSTOCK)

Cooked chai or masala chai are both, effectively, variations on hot flavoured milk. (SHUTTERSTOCK)

Indians have never fallen out of love with milk. We still associate it with good health. (SHUTTERSTOCK)