10 facts about cheese Bashny.Net

Pinch the nose, arm appetite and curiosity and read about cheese. Even an ordinary sandwich with cheese will seem something more.





1. To prepare a kilo of cheese, you will need about 10 liters of cow's or goat's milk. But he is prepared not only from milk: there are cheeses made from soy, peas, liver calf or pig, sour cream and even sugar with ice.



2. Follow the presence of cheese were found in the Egyptian pyramids of the First Dynasty (3000 - 2800 BC). Homer mentions how to produce cheese in the Odyssey. The cheese was an important product for the trade of the ancient Greeks and Romans.



3. Dutch first opted for commerce and began to produce huge circles of cheese in the XIV century. And it still is one of the important products.



4. Some of the Caucasian peoples cheese, with a strong smell, it is considered an aphrodisiac. Therefore, it is always present at the wedding table.



5. In the UK annually Skating Championship Cheese - Cheese race in Gloucester.



6. Cheddar Cheese annatto seeds painted more than 200 years. Also used for coloring cheese carrot juice and marigold petals.



7. British Queen Victoria (1837- 1901) as a wedding gift presented huge wheel Cheddar cheese weighing just over 500 kg.



8. According to legend, when the philosopher Zarathustra went from the madding crowd, and dwelt in the wilderness, more than 20 years, his diet consisted almost one cheese.



9. When preparing cheese, the movement of bacteria causing gas. When the gas is released, gas bubbles leave holes in the cheese. Experts call them "eyes».



10. They say that soft cheese Camembert contributed to the birth of the famous painting by Salvador Dali "Flowable hours." Once tasted this cheese for dinner, the artist sat down in front of unfinished cloth, turned out the light and began to reflect on the wonderful flavor of Camembert. It was then that he was a marvelous vision and "rasteksheysya time».