| It's no surprise that cheese has been
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| | throughout the known world. When the
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| around for a long time. With estimates
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| | Empire declined and fell, cheese history
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| ranging from 5,000 years to 10,000 years
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| | moved forward. As long-distance trade
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| old, cheese is actually older than
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| | fell off, local cheese makers began to
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| history. The most accepted version of its
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| | develop more diverse cheeses and
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| origin is that it was likely the way that
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| | processes. France and Italy take their
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| already sour milk was preserved.
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| | place in cheese history by having the
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| By waiting for the sour milk to separate,
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| | greatest varieties of cheeses: about 400
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| the solids could be removed, pressed and
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| | each.
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| salted and then eaten. This probably
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| | In the modern section of cheese history,
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| happened in the Middle East. These early
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| | the big event was the industrialized
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| cheeses were probably very salty and
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| | production of cheese. The first cheese
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| acidic. At a later point someone
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| | factory opened in Switzerland in 1815.
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| discovered that milk stored in the
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| | Larger scale production was established
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| stomach of a calf became better cheese
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| | in the United States with its first
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| and rennet, the enzyme that helps digest
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| | assembly-line cheese factory in 1851. The
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| milk entered cheese history.
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| | necessary cheese ingredient, rennet,
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| Ancient to Modern
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| | began being mass produced a decade later.
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| Once cheese traveled to cooler climates,
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| | By the beginning of the twentieth
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| salt and acid became a little less
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| | century, science was able to add pure
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| important, allowing microbes and mold to
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| | microbial cultures to the mix.
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| become part of the flavoring of aged
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| | Traditional cheese making was
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| cheeses. Cheese was important in ancient
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| | overshadowed by factory cheese making
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| Greece and Rome. Cheese making was
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| | around World War II. Today, cheese
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| mentioned in Homer's Odyssey. According
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| | history records the fact that the
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| to cheese history, the art of making
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| | majority of cheese is factory made. In
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| cheese was established by the time the
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| | America, more processed cheese is bought
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| Roman Empire came into power.
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| | than any other kind. Processed cheese is
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| The methods used to turn a variety of
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| | a mixture of regular cheese - usually
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| milk into a array of cheeses are similar
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| | scraps - some unfermented dairy products,
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| to those used today. Cheese was
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| | emulsifiers for more even melting, extra
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| considered part of an everyday diet. The
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| | salt and various food colorings.
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| Roman process of making cheese spread
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