How did humans discover how to make cheese?
Have you ever wondered how humans figured out how to turn milk in to cheese? Well wonder no more. In this video, I discuss what we know about the first steps in the history of cheese and why the usual story we are told about the origins of cheese is most likely a myth.
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Sources used:
Kindstedt, Paul. Cheese and Culture: A History of Cheese and Its Place in Western Civilisation. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012.
Kurlansky, Mark. Milk: A 10,000-Year History. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.
Tunick, Michael H. The Science of Cheese. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
00:00 Introduction
00:54 The cheese origin myth
03:06 So how is cheese made?
05:08 How did humans discover cheese?
10:26 Next time
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