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Cheese and Culture: A History of Cheese and its Place in Western Civilization by Paul Kindstedt

cutlassmeatmouth's review

5.0

The first 3/4 of the book is more like the history of socioeconomic development in the Near East, Medditeranean, and finally Europe proper, while occasionally mentioning that cheese and butter were involved. For someone like me who's ignorant of this topic I found it to be a really interesting, digestible history of the West.

It didn't get in to cheese much until it reached the 1400s or so. The descriptions of how small changes in method led to huge diversity of cheese was fascinating. All in all would recommend