Mommy's Milk Cheese, please!
 

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Daniel Angerer is used to getting attention for the food served at his restaurant, Klee Brasserie — but the New York chef is making more headlines than ever over a new dish that has its source in his fiancee's brassiere.

"Mommy's Milk Cheese" is exactly what it sounds like: cheese made from the breast milk of a nursing mother.

In Angerer's case, that mother is his longtime fiancee, Lori Mason, who was producing more milk than she knew what to do with while nursing their now 10-week-old daughter, Arabella.

"We see this supply in the freezer and basically can't stuff anymore breast milk in there," Angerer told FoxNews.com.

So, the couple started researching how they could donate the milk but discovered it was a "lengthy process."

"We realized we were going to have to throw a lot of it out, pour this liquid gold down the drain, and we were not going to do that," Angerer said. "So, me being a chef, we said, 'Hey, let's make some cheese!'"

After a successful experiment in February, Angerer posted his new recipe on his blog, "Taking Butter From Lettuce and Sugar From Peas," and from there, Mason said, it took off "like wildfire."

"People were sort of intrigued, interested, put off, fascinated, disgusted — whatever it is, people were obviously reacting and responding to it," she said.

And while responses to Angerer's blog post range from supporters who call "Mommy's Milk Cheese" a "beautiful thing" to critics who are horrified by the whole idea, Mason says the responses from those who've tasted it are far less varied.

"The people who've tried it so far say the same thing, which is, 'Oh, it tastes like cheese.'"

The couple's curious neighbor Troy Berman followed suit Tuesday, saying, "it tastes the same as any other cheese to me," after sampling it for the first time.

wow...........just wow.

jesus. gross O_o

as a breastfeeding mother of a 12 day old newborn, I say EWWWWWW!

wow, congrats! :)

awsome! Congrats!

I remember my pediatrician telling me that some athletes & bodybuilders will buy and drink breastmilk to help them develop muscle (I guess kind of like a protein shake?). My husband even tried to find out how much he could sell it for on the internet. I thought that was gross. The cheese thing- even more gross.

I was eating when I opened this thread. I got about three or four lines into your post.

I had to toss my sandwich and stop reading.
*GAG*

:eek: Yuckorama and Holy Moly! His fiancee must be a veritable fountain to be able to produce enough to make the cheese and nurse.

Holy Wow!! Congratulations, Dani! :D

lol lol
This alone was hilarious!

eta: congrats to kddani! :)

First, Congrats Dani!

Second, as gross as it is, it's nothing new. If this is the same restaurant, then it's been serving the breastmilk for a while. If not, then there is another restaurant that does that as well.

According to the 'powers that be' its not sanitary to use human breast milk. I personally wouldn't *knowingly* eat something made from human breastmilk, but it can't be any worse than cow's milk.

Tyra had a show on this a couple of weeks ago. There was a woman selling it for $3 an ounce? (not sure on the volume) Apparently it is also something some cancer patients drink.

What...it tastes good :shrugs:

not really though lol

Congrats kddani!

wait...would it pasturerized? It has to be to be served, right?

Congrats kddani!


Yick!!!

I would not drink it to build muscle.
I would not drink it to fight cancer.
I do not like it in a box.
I do not like it with a fox.
I do not like your boobie juice.
No. Freaking. Way.

Congratulations!! Hope everybody's doing well!

BAHAHA! couldn't they just have donated the milk to mothers unable to produce milk for their own babies?

Live-in suggested that we make our tres leche cake quatro leche - you know where this is going.

He also wants to know if it's FDA approved.

Congrats, kddani!

I nursed my daughter for a year and couldn't imagine ever turning the milk into cheese. Not to mention that it certainly isn't sanitary to share breastmilk like that. All the same reasons breast pumps can't be handed down or sold like strollers or carseats. You never know what the mother may have that she's not aware of. Creepy, to say the least. And how the eff is she able to get that much milk in the first place? PUT DOWN THE PUMP, WOMAN! Unless you're a full-time working mom, you don't need that kind of stash.

The process for donation is lengthy, with medical screenings and all that jazz. So I wonder just how they're making and selling this "Mommy's Milk Cheese" without having to go through the same screenings...

I know that I'm just contributing to it right now, but I really hate that this thread keeps getting bumped...the title alone grosses me out, lol

The milk or the cake? :p

Nope it's not for the reasons GMUBunny said....at least that is what they were saying on the radio.

first thing I thought of:

2nd thing I thought of, yuck

3rd thing I thought of: Congrats Dani.

Congrats danni! I hope you have a wonderful and long nursing relationship! I too am a breastfeeding mom for almost a year now (I will be in total denial of her 1 year bday until it is actually here in 2 weeks!).

I understand it makes some people uncomfortable since we're talking human boobs here and they are mostly seen as sexual. However, why is it that human milk (which, btw, is nutrition made just for humans) is seen as disgusting and cow or goat milk (which is nutrition made for cows and goats) is normal? Don't take this as me being anti-cow/goat milk. It just seems weird that something pumped out of another species is normal to eat in different formats (cheese, yogurt, etc) and the same liquid pumped out of our species is weird.

I think making cheese with breast milk is a little weird, but I don't think it's gross. Unless a mom has one of few diseases (like HIV/AIDS and a few others), human breast milk is actually sanitary. It has antibodies that fight off bacteria and keep the milk "clean."