Cheese treatise: 15 facts about cheese, after which you will like him respect

Cheese - it's not just on the plate salty sandwich with butter. This is a whole culture and history. The site offers a collection of facts about the cheese that will make you take a fresh look at this produkt.1. Pervoprodukt



Cheese - a very ancient product. For the first time the cheese started to prepare more 7000 years BC. Most researchers believe that the first cheese came in the Middle East. Nomads to save mare's milk, it clot and dried in the sun.

2. Cheese - afrodiziak

Some cheeses, especially those with mold, are aphrodisiacs, that is, products that enhance sexual sensitivity. And both men and women.

3. Sychug

In the manufacture of the majority of cheese producers use rennin - a digestive enzyme that breaks down the peptides. Rinnin released from the rennet, the stomach of ruminants (calves and lambs), so fundamental vegans do not eat cheese.

4. Kollektsionery

People who are fond of collecting cheese labels, called tirosemiofilistami.

5. eyed syr

A distinctive feature of some types of cheese are the holes. Where did they come from? They are the result of the motion of bacteria that cause gas. These bubbles are gas experts call "eyes».

6. Cheese and tseremonial

In France, a cult of cheese. Some cheeses are an obligatory attribute of state ceremonial. On this occasion at the Charles de Gaulle lamented: "It is impossible to govern the country, which has 246 kinds of cheese!».

7. Cheese Bri

One of the most devoted connoisseurs of cheese was Charlemagne. Favorite kind of cheese he had cheese "Brie." This type of cheese is very "capricious": he "lives" only 84 days, 4 hour and 23 minutes. After this period you can not eat cheese - can be poisoned.

8. Horse syra

Every year, on the outskirts of Gloucester held "National championship skating cheeses." Participants run alternately from the hill Cooper Hill of head cheese, which was started from the top of the ceremonies. The one who catches up with the head cheese faster than the others. Her poluchetsya winner and a prize.

9. Royal podarok

Cheese can be not only exercise equipment, but also valuable gift. Circle of Cheddar cheese was presented on the day of the wedding of Queen Victoria. It weighed half a ton of the Present.

10. Color syra

Cheeses are different not only in classes but in color. What determines the color? From the composition of the milk from which the cheese is made. The color depends on milk that a cow or a goat, or a mare eats. The more milk-carotene, the more intense color of the cheese. Some cheeses tint broth calendula flowers or carrot juice.

11. Rescue wine

Cheese with wine can not only drink, but also with the help of wine to keep. One of the traditional ways to preserve the cheese head lies in the fact that it nitty gritty wine bottle is inserted upside down. So the cheese stays fresh longer.

12. Cheese zalog

Cheese used in banking. From the middle of the XX century, some banks in northern Italy began to make loans secured by cheesemakers parmesan. Cheeses, usually maturing 2-3 years, the bank put in a special storage. If the lender delays payment, the bank can sell the cheese.

13. Cheese "Cas Marzio"

Perhaps the most peculiar kind of cheese - Sicilian "Cas Marzio." This cheese, to put it mildly, an amateur. Its longer withstand conventional fermentation step, subjecting rotting during which cheese fly larvae accelerate lipolysis in cheese and make it softer. If these larvae to worry, they can jump a distance of 15 centimeters, so that the cheese is often eaten for special glasses. Many gourmets even worms removed before use.

14. Cheese and gadanie

At the time, the cheese was not just a meal. In ancient times, and in the Middle Ages, it along with egg, ivy, bones, sheep liver, fig leaf and coffee grounds used for divination.

15. Cheese traktat

The most famous book about cheese was written by a French cheesemaker Andre Simon. He wrote his treatise "On the cheese business" for 17 years. In it, he told about the peculiarities of the preparation of 839 varieties of cheese.

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