On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 07:10:51 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> 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?

That's one of the legends. But cheese, wine (or other alcohol), and
bread were developed independently on different continents without
the knowledge of other continents. But not all continents had all
3, such as native North Americans not having cheese, that I know of.

-sw