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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...