Welcome to Cheese History where we talk about the history of cheese, recreate old recipes, make cheese, compare cheeses made in different ways. If you have questions about how cheeses came to be the way they are today, then you have come to the right place. So grab a wedge of your favourite cheese and lets learn all about cheese history.
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Sources
Argeloo, Marc. Hoe De Edammer De Wereld Veroverde: De Geschiedenis Van Een Rond Kaasje. Hoorn, Netherlands: Uniepers, 2011.
Boisard, Pierre. Camembert: A National Myth. Translated by Richard Miller. Berkely and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003.
Brodie, R. H., ed. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic of the Reign of Henry VIII. Vol. 1 part 1. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1920.
Cheke, Val. The Story of Cheese-Making in Britain. London: Wyman & Sons, 1959.
Dalby, Andrew. Cheese: A Global History. The Edible Series. London: Reaktion Books, 2009.
Donnelly, Catherine, ed. The Oxford Companion to Cheese. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Dumas, Emilie, Alice Feurtey, Ricardo C. Rodríguez de la Vega, Stéphanie Le Prieur, Alodie Snirc, Monika Coton, Anne Thierry, Emmanuel Coton, Mélanie Le Piver, Daniel Roueyre, Jeanne Ropars, Antoine Branca and Tatiana Giraud. "Independent Domestication Events in the Blue-Cheese Fungus Penicillium Roqueforti." bioRxiv (2019): 451773.
Edgar, Gordon. Cheddar: A Journey to the Heart of America's Most Iconic Cheese. White River Junction: Chelsea Green, 2015.
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.
Palmer, Ned. A Cheesemonger's History of the British Isles. London: Profile Books, 2019.
Valenze, Deborah. Milk: A Local and Global History. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2011.
Images
Roquefort, by Thesupermat via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi..., CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
Henry VIII portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger (after 1537) (public domain)
Pope Julius II portrait by Raphael (1511) (public domain)
Roquefort (public domain)
Louis Pasteur portrait by Albert Edelfelt from 1885 (public domain)
Camembert le Châtelain: Jon Sullivan, (public domain)
Sumerian scene, milking cows and making dairy products. From the facade of the Temple of Ninhursag at Tell al-'Ubaid, Iraq, 2800-2600 BCE by Neuroforever (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi..., CC-BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
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