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The production of cheese predates recorded history, beginning well over 7,000 years ago. [1] [2] [3] Humans likely developed cheese and other dairy foods by accident, as a result of storing and transporting milk in bladders made of ruminants' stomachs, as their inherent supply of rennet would encourage curdling.
This is a list of notable cheesemakers. Cheesemakers are people or companies that make cheese , who have developed the knowledge and skills required to convert milk into cheese. Cheesemaking involves controlling precisely the types and amounts of ingredients used and the parameters of the cheesemaking process, to make specific types and ...
One of the ancient cheesemakers' earliest tools for cheesemaking, cheese molds or strainers, can be found throughout Europe, dating back to the Bronze Age. [4] Baskets were used to separate the cheese curds, but as technology advanced, these cheese molds would be made of wood or pottery.
Sources from the 13th-14th centuries attest to the production of fat cheese in Lower Valais and the Gruyères region. Archaeologists have identified in medieval alpine settlements (mainly in central Switzerland) equipment for the preparation and storage of the product, such as cheese press supports, crotto -like structures used to keep milk and ...
Etching of Cheese Maker Joseph Harding (1805-1876) of Wanstrow, Somerset, England The memorial to Joseph Harding in the Church of St Peter, Marksbury. Joseph Harding (22 March 1805 in Sturton Farm, Wanstrow, Somerset, England – 1 May 1876 in Vale Court Farm, Marksbury, Somerset) was responsible for the introduction of modern cheese-making techniques and has been described as the "father of ...
In the second half of the 13th century, Jacobus de Cessolis, a Dominican friar in Cessole (Asti district, Piemonte, Northern Italy) used chess as the basis for a series of sermons on morality. They later became Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum ('Book of the customs of men and the duties of nobles or the Book ...
As the name Stilton could not be used, the new cheese was named Stichelton, which its makers say was based on the original name of the village of Stilton (the spelling Stichelton appears in the 13th-century Lincoln Rolls). The first Stichelton cheese was produced in October 2006.
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