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A History of Cheese and its Place in Western Civilization
Paul Kindstedt
Paperback
$ 24.95
This refreshingly original book will appeal to anyone who hump account , food , and especially salutary cheese .
Behind every traditional eccentric of cheese there is a fascinating report . By canvass the role of the cheesemaker throughout world history and by understanding a few basic principles of tall mallow science and engineering , we can see how unlike cheese have been shaped by and tailored to their surrounding surroundings , as well as define by their societal and cultural circumstance . cheeseflower and Cultureendeavors to advance our admiration of cheeseflower origins by consider human history through the heart of a cheese scientist .
There is also a larger story to be secernate , a expansive narrative that adhere all cheeses together into a single history that start with the find of cheese making and that is still unfolding to this day . This book of account reconstructs that 9000 - year story ground on the often fragmental information that we have useable . tall mallow and Cultureembarks on a journey that begins in the Neolithic Age and winds its fashion through the ensuing century to the nowadays . This term of enlistment through cheese history intersects with some of the pivotal periods in human prehistory and ancient , classical , medieval , rebirth , and modern history that have shaped westerly civilization , for these period also mold the lives of cheesemakers and the diverse cheeses that they build up . The volume offer a useful lens system through which to look at our twenty - first century attitudes toward cheeseflower that we have inherited from our past , and our attitudes about the food system more broadly .
“ I get it on this book — approachable in its prose and style with the comprehensiveness and depth of an academic work . . . Paul Kindstedt has produce a seminal piece of work inCheese and Culture . ”—Mateo Kehler , cheesemaker , Jasper Hill Farm
“ This book will fascinate anyone who have it away cheese . With a wholesale position , from the early prehistoric tameness of goats and sheep to the present , it chronicles how social , technological , and political developments collapse rise to the vast raiment of cheeses we know and have it off . ”—Sandor Ellix Katz , author ofThe Art of FermentationandWild Fermentation
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