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It can be consumed in blocks or wheels, strings or curds, slices or cubes. It can be hard or soft, fresh or old, and can even be

consumed if it smells bad or has mold on it. Pizza, hamburgers, and crackers all depend

on it, yet it can also be eaten by itself.

I am of course talking about cheese.

Learn more about cheese, how it was discovered and how it's made on this episode of

everything everywhere daily. Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. So, Cheese is one of those things that dates back before recorded human history.

We have no clue who discovered Cheese or where the discovery was made. Pretty much as far back as we can

document human civilization, there was always some form of cheese. It is believed, and

quite reasonably I think, that cheese was discovered around the same time that humans began

domesticating animals.

That means the first cheeses would have been made from sheep or goat milk, not milk from cows.

There are a couple of theories as to how cheese was discovered.

The first theory is that it was probably accidentally discovered by someone who was transporting

liquid milk in a bladder made from the stomach of a ruminant animal.

Inside the stomach would have been trace amounts

of the enzyme known as rennet. When exposed to rennet, milk would start to curdle to form

cheese. Someone then opened up their milk bladder and found that there was a solid inside, they ate it, and

wala, cheese was born.

The other theory is that someone added fruit or fruit juice to milk.

The acid in the fruit would have caused the curdling and voila cheese was born.

However it happened cheese was actually a really important innovation for humans.

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