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's, hamburgers, and crack 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. And soo, Cheese is one of those things that dates back before recorded to 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 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, voila, 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

wala, cheese was born. However it happened, cheese was actually a really important innovation

for humans. Milk allowed humans to extract more calories from animals

beyond just meat. If you slaughter an animal you can eat it but that's it. If you can

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