The history of cheese

Before royalty and mechanics, before writing and war, before empires and civilizations, there was cheese. Around 8,000 BCE there were some farmers, at the rise of agriculture ancient farmers started harvesting milk from cows, but when left in warm conditions the milk started to sour, they clumped in to pre-modern cheese, the rest of the sour milk was drained and eventually named whey, the reason I call them pre modern cheese is because they would eventually be aged, pressed, ripened and wizzed, cheese was a huge advantage to ancient people, it had everything that milk had and it didn't contain as much lactose, a sugar that is very hard to digest for ancient people. Some ancient fragments of pottery in Turkey have residues of this cheese. 

By the end of the bronze age cheese was a standard in the east mediterranean trade, in the dense and thriving civilization of mesopotamia cheese was a staple of culinary and religious life, some of the earliest writings are records of cheese, some cultures rejected the dairy delicacy but others embraced it and swooped their own spin on it.

 The nomadic tribes of Mongolia used yak's milk to make stiff naturally dried wedges of Byaslag. The egyptians made goats milk cheese straining the whey with dried grass, around south asia cheese was mixed with food acids to make soft loaves or paneer witch could be added to a curry or fried to eat on the go, in Rome dry cheese was used to feed the 500,000 soldiers guarding the borders.

After the fall of the Eastern Roman empire some medieval monks rised, they worked endlessly and made many cheeses such as Parmesan and Munster. In the swiss alps cheese making flourished and thrived making a vast cornucopia of cow's milk cheese, in switzerland there was a state filled with very profitable cheese, henceforth a neighboring state took over to get their hands on this cheese. Cheese is a fascinating delicacy so don’t waste it.