The History Handout - Cheese

THE HISTORY I'm Coupons HANDOUT Cheese Making of cheese dates back more than 4,000 years. By Roman times, cheese was an everyday food and cheese making a mature art. The earliest cheeses were likely to have been quite sour and salty, similar in texture either to rustic cottage cheese or to present-day feta. First introduced: Cheddar around 1500 CE, Parmesan in 1597, Gouda in 1697, and Camembert in 1791 1815: The first factory for the industrial production of cheese opened in Switzerland. Factory-made cheese overtook traditional cheese making in the World War Il era. Current day: Americans buy more processed cheese than "real", factory-made or not.