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Going Whey Back…Evidence of Cheese Making Dating Back Thousands of Years Unearthed

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Going Whey Back…Evidence of Cheese Making Dating Back Thousands of Years Unearthed

 

What is it with Poland these days?

Milk extracts have been identified on 34 perforated pottery vessels or “cheese-strainers”, which date back 7,500 years have been excavated in Poland.

The only other written evidence for cheese-making activity occurs much later in the archaeological record, around 5,000 years ago.

That’s some aged goodness…

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