The book also asks: When should the cheese be consumed? “The cheese presses the meat to the bottom of the stomach.”
A compiled cheese pamphlet containing the differences, nature, qualities and kindness of it.
It is a strange first paragraph, but it is the title of older English book ever about… cheese. At least it is the oldest book that is known about it.
It is believed to have been written almost 450 years ago. But now a new transcription of this English book has emerged. It is available for the first time.
It is also estimated that it is the first comprehensive academic study of a single food to be written in English.
Cheese has already entered our diet since prehistory, but there was little evidence of its nature and places of production at this time.
This book mixes old knowledge, writer’s experiences with cheese, and investigation.
And reveals that, at the time, there were people who gave Importance to foodwho looked at food as a way of taking care of themselves, health, avoiding disease, underlines the.
Historian Alex Bamji highlights this passage: “He who will judge if cheese is a convenient food for himself, must consider the nature of the body and temperament of cheese and, considering both, will be able to judge whether it is likely to suffer any damage because of cheese or not.”
“The term ‘intolerant of dairy products’ It may not have been used at that time, but there is certainly here an understanding that cheese works better in the body of some people than in others – although the author explains it through the ‘moods’ system and the idea that his body will be warmer or colder and drier or more damp, ”Bamji said in a statement.
In this book, one also wonders: When should the cheese be consumed? It is better to be at the end of the meal: “The cheese presses the meat to the bottom of the stomach.”
A tip is left: Use fish guts to curd the milk.
Another serious warning: Drinking dog milk can cause premature birth. The author of the book states that there were reports using camela milk, dumb and mare to make cheese.
To write this book, the author studied medicines from ancient Greece, but also spoke to many peasants of that time, who had experience in this subject.
It is not known who wrote this book.
