THE world’s oldest piece of cheese has been found in the tomb of a Chinese mummy. Archaeologists reckon a peckish Bronze Age farmer was buried with a chunk of their favourite smelly stuff.
While family-run Hook’s Cheese only has seven full-time employees, this 8,500-square-foot cheesemaking plant — originally built as a livery stable to the Washington Hotel in 1875 and is on the ...
Among the treasures they dug up were mysterious white lumps strewn across the mummies’ necks: chunks of the oldest preserved cheese in the world. Writing in the journal Cell on September 25th ...
This dairy decoration is the “oldest cheese in the world,” said Qiaomei Fu, a paleogeneticist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Wenying Li “This is the oldest known cheese sample ever discovered in the world,” says co-author Qiaomei Fu, a paleogeneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in a statement from the journal.
"A cheese costume is a silly outfit that makes you look like a big, cheesy piece of dairy," you might say. But hold your grater, dear reader, for these costumes are anything but Gouda! They are a ...