Who invented cheese ???????????

Question: Who invented cheese !?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
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Hi Miguel,
Saw your question and had to answer it!. The word cheese from the Latin caseus, which in turn became cīese or cēse in old English, which gave rise to chese in Middle English!.
Cheese is undoubtedly old!.
It is so old that it is no longer clear if it’s making was discovered or invented, but either probably happened in the Middle East or Asia around 8000 BC!. The earliest archaeological evidence for cheese making equipment has been found in Egyptian tomb murals, dating to about 2300 BC!.
Ancient Greek mythology credited Aristaeus with the discovery of cheese!. Homer's Odyssey (8th century BCE) describes the Cyclops making and storing sheep's and goats' milk cheese!. (From Samuel Butler's translation):
Credit for the discovery of cheese most likely goes to nomadic Turkic tribes in Central Asia, around the same time that they developed yogurt!.
A common tale about the discovery of cheese tells of an Arab nomad carrying milk across the desert in a container made from an animal's stomach, only to discover the milk had been separated into curd and whey by the residue of rennet in the stomach!.
Thats all I have!. I hope it's of some help to you!.
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Origins

A piece of soft curd cheese, oven baked to increase longevityCheese is an ancient food whose origins predate recorded history!. There is no conclusive evidence indicating where cheesemaking originated, either in Europe, Central Asia or the Middle East, but the practice had spread within Europe prior to Roman times and, according to Pliny the Elder, had become a sophisticated enterprise by the time the Roman Empire came into being!.

Proposed dates for the origin of cheesemaking range from around 8000 BCE (when sheep were first domesticated) to around 3000 BCE!. The first cheese may have been made by people in the Middle East or by nomadic Turkic tribes in Central Asia!. Since animal skins and inflated internal organs have, since ancient times, provided storage vessels for a range of foodstuffs, it is probable that the process of cheese making was discovered accidentally by storing milk in a container made from the stomach of an animal, resulting in the milk being turned to curd and whey by the rennet from the stomach!. There is a widely-told legend about the discovery of cheese by an Arab trader who used this method of storing milk!. The legend has many individual variations!.[3][4]

Cheesemaking may also have begun independent of this by the pressing and salting of curdled milk in order to preserve it!. Observation that the effect of making milk in an animal stomach gave more solid and better-textured curds, may have led to the deliberate addition of rennet!.

The earliest archaeological evidence of cheesemaking has been found in Egyptian tomb murals, dating to about 2000 BCE!.[5] The earliest cheeses were likely to have been quite sour and salty, similar in texture to rustic cottage cheese or feta, a crumbly, flavorful Greek cheeseWww@QuestionHome@Com

Cheese is an ancient food whose origins predate recorded history!. There is no conclusive evidence indicating where cheesemaking originated, either in Europe, Central Asia or the Middle East, but the practice had spread within Europe prior to Roman times and, according to Pliny the Elder, had become a sophisticated enterprise by the time the Roman Empire came into being!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Americans! :D

Namely some people who live in Wisconson the cheese state :D thats why they call it the CHEESE STATE!

haha JK!
I acctually dont know!.
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I did a talk on this xD

And no one is sure who first created cheese, I think the origin of cheese predaes recorded history, but it is thought to be first made in the Middle east or Central Asia:)Www@QuestionHome@Com

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