On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 00:59:54 -0500, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>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

I thought that was the story for yogurt