Key Events
77CE ANCIENT ROMAN CHEESE
Roman chroniclers identified both hard and soft cheese, as well as varieties made from not just the milk of cows and goats but camels, assess, horses, hares and fawns. Something of a foodie, Pliny the Elder – writing in the 1st century CE – singled out the smoked goat’s cheese of Rome as being the best of the bunch.
1546 THE CHEESE MOON
Although fables and mythology about the Moon being made of cheese have been in existence since that “the Moon is made of green cheese”.
