The first verifiable cheese drainer (used to drain naturally coagulated milk) can be traced back to around 5000 BC. To be sure, the first piece of cheese was curd-like, and it was freshly dried at room temperature.
Many ancient articles mentioned the existence of cheese. Park Yung-soo, Aristotle, Plato and Epicurus all expressed their love for cheese in their respective times.
Cheese (fromage；; In Latin, it is called formaticus, which means "shaping") and has always played an important role in the food of all societies. It can not only be produced under almost any environmental conditions, but also be a good way to preserve milk in the face of some scarce supply periods.
Cheese can well retain the protein contained in it. Its making method has been passed down since ancient times, which stems from people's desire to prolong the eating period of milk, a special food: this solid or semi-solid food is made by separating the solid part of milk, that is, curd, from liquid whey and curing it for a period of time (which can be long or short).
Perhaps the oldest French cheese is Cantar cheese, which has existed for nearly two thousand years. Modern writer Print? Lancien ("Jules? The author of Julius Caesar has mentioned this kind of cheese in his works. Writer Mathea first proposed that goat cheese existed in the Pyrenees as early as the first century ... Since the Crusade, today's cheese has entered the edible menu.
The production of cheese soon spread from farmers to monks. Monasteries and other types of monasteries have become holy places for cheese production. Monks have enough patience to deal with fresh milk, coupled with their huge demand for cheese, so there are many kinds of cheese. By 1550, there are more than 50 varieties.
Until18th century, cheese was not salted. Because at that time, salt was still an expensive food. Therefore, at that time, cheese was used as a dessert, accompanied by boiled fruit with sugar.
It was not until the19th century that cheese making technology experienced a real revolution. Pasteur found that some biological bacteria can ferment some foods (especially fresh milk) and kill some bacteria by heating, so people invented the flash pasteurization method named after him, which contributed to the rise of cheese industry and its rapid development later.