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.