We all love the flavor of cheese, don’t we, well not for those who hate milk and its products, but when we talk of delicious creamy white cheese, our mouths water. Cheese has been in existence for more than four thousand years and is made from cow’s milk (mostly). It is a nutritious delight and across the globe people love it to be a part of almost every item on their dinner table. Human beings have been pampered and spoiled over the ages for the various types of cheese available today, some with varying textures, while others with flavors to match every palette and satisfaction. Cheddar being the most consumed in the world, it is available in slices, blocks, cubes, strips and shreds. You could have your cheese with sandwiches, burgers, pizzas, puffs, deserts, soups and plenty other recipes that may come to your mind.
Now if you do not have a fridge at home then your milk obviously wouldn’t survive the attack from bacteria that roam in the air, especially if the climate is hot and dry or even humid in some cases. Sometimes keeping milk for a long time in the fridge could also kill the contents. Now in the olden days, cows gave birth during spring and other times they gave milk, so people had to find a way to have their nutritious milk all year round and hence cheese was invented to be eaten as a milk product in winters and during the fall. The easiest forms of cheese would be yogurt, check the diets of those in India and the Mediterranean and you would know that even today, yogurt is served with every meal doled out of the kitchens. When milk is kept outside on any given warm day it would get all lumpy and yogurt would form. This would then be made into cheese of various flavors and consumed or even stored for the winters and fall.
Today the availability and the quality of cheese has been improved since the days of cancan gowns and snooty attitudes. The makers have moved away from the generic blandness associated with cheese and with new textures and flavors have come out with cheese being retailed as commodities over the years. Certain diets like the Atkins diet has propagated the use of cheese for weight loss and stated that it is imperative to have high fat content to reduce weight since the fat in cheese is good for the body. Some even say with serious veins that even if there is nothing to eat cheese can fill the stomach, so goodbye recession pangs and hello cheesy platters to delight.
From being a delicacy, cheese is now traveling across lifestyles like never before. As an entertainment entourage at parties, the humble cheese is served with baked potatoes and wine as a healthy snack, or even red wine and cheese for a romantic night out. It can only be assured that as long as cheese is made good and available around the world would be a happier place with plenty of cocktail parties happening round the corner. So here’s to the cheesy delights on how it moved around all these years!
-Written by Sans Ant
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