History of cheese

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  • 8000 BCE

    Introduction of cheese

    The earliest Neolithic farmers living in the Fertile Crescent began a cheese products.
  • Period: 8000 BCE to

    History of cheese

  • 1200 BCE

    Cheese trade in the Mediterranen

    Cheese was standard commodity in maritime trade throughout the eastern Mediterranean
  • 650 BCE

    Pottery with cheese residue

    In Turkey, pottery fragment are found that still contain telltale residues of the cheese and butter they held.
  • 100 BCE

    Cheesemaking in the Roman Empire

    By the time of Julius Caesar, literally hundreds of varieties of cheese were being produced and traded across the mighty Roman Empire and beyond.
  • 476

    Creation of today's popolar cheeses

    Medieval monks experimented endlessly with different types of milk, cheesemaking practice, and aging process that led to Parmesan, Roquefort, Munster and several Swiss types.
  • 1400

    Growing cheese trade

    Alpine cheese from Gruyere region of Switzerland had become so profitable that a neighboring state invaded the Gruyere highland to take control of the trade.

  • Cheese production and shipping

    Today the world produces roughly 22 billion kilograms of cheese a year, shipped and consumed around the globe.