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Sniff.. Phew! WORLD'S OLDEST CHEESE discovered in Poland
Ancient cheese-making technology has been discovered in Poland - proving Man was making proto-mozzarella approximately 8,000 years ago. The find shows humans made cheese in the Neolithic Era, 3,000 years earlier than archaeologists previously thought. Traces of the world's oldest fromage were discovered by researchers from …
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Friday 14th December 2012 10:36 GMT JimmyPage
Fascinating ...
Making cheese is not a walk in the park ... to discover our ancestors were up to it so long ago is incredible. The implications are astounding, since cheese making is analogous to beer (and bread) making.
The ability to adapt out environment to suit our needs is a unique trait to human species.
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Friday 14th December 2012 12:18 GMT The last doughnut
Re: Fascinating ...
I think you misunderestimate our neolithic ancestors. They were pretty much the same as us - same brains, same noses, same taste buds. They almost certainly tried to store fruit and other perishable and fermentable foodstuffs in pottery vessels - thereby accidentally inventing indigestion as well.
Friday beers all round!
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Friday 14th December 2012 13:33 GMT Robert Helpmann??
Re: Fascinating ...
...thereby accidentally inventing indigestion as well.
I listened to an interview with Peter Bogucki. He said that the pots looked very much like the strainer that a friend used in making cheese. He wanted to test them for milk compounds, but the technology was not available to do so at the time.
As far as indigestion is concerned, he went on to comment that the Neolithic inventors of this technology were mostly lactose intolerant, but that the cheese-making process removes a lot of that sugar, which makes it easier to digest.
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