Archaeological discoveries

Cheese:the Origins

Prehistoric cuisine. Cheese was an almost certainly accidental discovery

The cheese it is one of those foods that have accompanied man since the dawn of civilization.

Most scholars believe that its origins date back to prehistoric times, when it was discovered by pure chance (as it happened, just to give an example, with the fire ), observing the remaining coagulated milk in the stomach of killed animals to eat and to cover themselves (their skins were the only "clothes" of prehistoric men and women).

In practice it was rennet, at the base of the cheese making process .