Is Edam a Roman cheese?
There are Roman records of a cheese that could be Edam. But how likely is it that Edam cheese goes back to Roman times?
Sources
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus. On Agriculture (Res Rustica V-IX). Translated by E. S. Forster and Edward H. Heffner. Vol. II. London: William Heinemann, 1954.
Kindstedt, Paul. Cheese and Culture: A History of Cheese and Its Place in Western Civilisation. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012.
van Bavel, Bas J. P. and Jan Luiten van Zanden. "The Jump-Start of the Holland Economy During the Late-Medieval Crisis, C.1350-C.1500." The Economic History Review 57, no. 3 (2004): 503-532.
Images
Edam cheese (Pixabay)
