“Before empires and royalty, before pottery and writing, before metal tools and weapons – there was cheese,” this video begins.
If you’ve been curious about the early days of cheese, make sure to watch this 5-minute video published by TedEd.
Click play to learn how it was first discovered and how it developed across a variety of cultures. We had no idea that this common food had such a fascinating history!
“Today, the world produces roughly 22 billion kilograms of cheese a year, shipped and consumed around the globe. But 10,000 years after its invention, local farms are still following in the footsteps of their Neolithic ancestors, handcrafting one of humanity’s oldest and favorite foods,” we learn.
