Milk, as we all know, is perishable. In fact, it may be the most famously perishable food in existence: It's not for nothing that we say something that's lost its luster over time has "aged like milk" ...

Hundreds of kitchen scenarios—you wake up craving a big bowl of cereal, your cookies need a dunking partner—all end the same way: you, standing at the refrigerator, fingers crossed, nose deep in a ...