Cheese Please
No matter how far archaeological finds go, there is evidence that
cheese came into being in prehistoric times. Cheese can not really
be said to have been "invented". This delicious food must
have resulted from the simple observation that milk left in a container
ends up by coagulating, even more if it is hot. People living in
areas where the climate changed seasonally would also have noticed
the effect of temperature on this process: in warmer weather the
milk would curdle faster than in the cold. This might be considered
the first technological cheesemaking discovery. There are hundreds
of different types of cheese that can be differentiated both by
the type of milk - raw, skimmed or pasteurised, and by the animal
- cow, goat, sheep, buffalo, horse or camel.
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