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?

Cindy Hamilton