Friday May 27, 2011
Montebaducco, Italy...what you don't know about donkey milk
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Donkeys roam the stables at Montebaducco Farm, in Italy (Photo/Emma Wallis) |
Land of milkin' donkeys
Here's one of those "who knew?" stories that we like on Dispatches. From the Italian countryside, here's Emma Wallis in Montebaducco.
And besides drinking the stuff, the ancients used to prescribe donkey milk for snakebite and nosebleeds.
Did they know something we've all but forgotten?
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