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Cheese: A Global History by Andrew Dalby Hardcover: 128 pages Published: November 15, 2009 ISBN-10: 1861895232 ISBN-13: 978-1861895233
If you ever wondered how cheese was invented — and where, and when, and even why — then CHEESE: A GLOBAL HISTORY is the book for you.
Cheese is one of the most ancient of civilized foods and one of the most nourishing: it could even be the product with which trade began. In bite-sized chapters well-known food historian Andrew Dalby tells the true and savoury story of cheese, from its prehistoric invention to the moment of its modern rebirth. Here you will find the most ancient cheese appellations; the first written description of the cheese-making process; the luxury cheeses of classical Rome; the medieval rule-of-thumb for identifying good cheese; and how Samuel Pepys saved his parmesan from the Fire of London; you will also discover which cheese was prescribed to patients at New York’s once-celebrated Pilsener Sanatorium. Packed with entertaining cheese facts, anecdotes and images, CHEESE also features a selection of authentic recipes, from a two-thousand-year-old junket to an eighteenth-century Welsh rarebit.
