Dairy may cause health issues for individuals with lactose intolerance and milk allergies.
Vegans and some vegetarians avoid dairy products due to a variety of ethical, dietary, environmental, political, and religious concerns.
Eggs are sometimes categorized as dairy, defining dairy as "food that is produced by animals (other than meat)" rather than as milk specifically. Defining dairy as limited to milk products, however, is more common.

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Issue 10 - First Principles Cookbook
The second edition of my Basics Cooking Handbook that sold 100,000 copies in its first print run, is now available online from bitesizecooking.com. Find out all about it.


First Principles
The Basics Cooking Handbook