trailanimal
son of soil
I love cheese! all types yum yum yum!
Here's a little history.
The production of cheese predates recorded history and was most likely discovered by accident during the transport of fresh milk in the organs of ruminants. In the millennia prior to refrigeration, cheese became a way to preserve milk. Although it is unknown where cheese production was first discovered, evidence of early cheese making is prevalent in the Middle East, Europe, and Central Asia.
Early Cheeses
It is thought that cheese was first discovered around 8000 BC around the time when sheep were first domesticated. Rennet, the enzyme used to make cheese, is naturally present in the stomachs of ruminants. Bladder like organs of animals, such as the stomach, were often used to store and transport milk and other liquids because of their leak-proof qualities. Without refrigeration, the warm summer heat in combination with residual rennet in the stomach lining would have naturally curdled the milk to produce the earliest forms of cheese.
These milk curds were strained and salt was added for extra preservation, giving birth to what we now know as "cheese." Even with the addition of salt, warm climates meant that most cheeses were eaten fresh and made daily.
One to try is Gjetost which tastes and looks like caramel and is a cooked cheese here's a little more info -
An unusual cooked whey cheese made from a mixture of goat and cows milk. This cheese has a distinctively sweet caramel flavour, which is usually eaten in very thin slivers with crusty bread. It is great melted on toast with chopped bananas! It has recently been re-branded and is now called Gudbrandsdalen, but still most widely known as Norwegian brown cheese.
gjetost, oh yeah