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Janet

In article >,
says...
>
> On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 8:39:40 AM UTC-4, Janet wrote:
> > In article >, lid
> > says...
> > >
> > > On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 13:42:34 -0700 (PDT), Silvar Beitel wrote:
> > >
> > > > I suspect you are right. The comments in that thread were interesting,
> > > > too. I will have to experiment (which, given the rate at which I make
> > > > bread and the dimensions of the art, will probably take the rest of
> > > > my life. :-) )
> > >
> > > It's hard to imagine that bread, wine, and cheese were some of the
> > > first Universal Foods discovered/invented.
> >
> > The first universal foods were leaves, fruit and berries, nuts, meat,
> > fish and milk.
> >
> > Bread, wine and cheese came much later, after nomadic hunter-gatherers
> > got into the residential property market and turned into herdsmen,
> > seed-sowers and farmers.
> >
> > Janet UK
>
> Perhaps cheese was discovered by the hunter-gatherers. Isn't the myth
> that one of them put surplus milk in a bag made from an animal's stomach,
> and the jiggling as he walked along mixed it with the natural rennet and
> turned it into cheese?

But first he had to capture and tame some mammals so he could collect
their milk.

Janet UK