The Paleo Diet Was Well Rounded
Human history is brought to you by wine, cheese and bread.
Cheese had a long history way before it was being fermented in the caves beneath Roquefort, France.
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The wheel, the catapult and all those other ancient mechanical inventions were nifty, but culinary innovations — bread, wine and cheese — had at least as much impact on the world and altered human physiology in the process.
Chemists announced last week that they identified the oldest actual piece of cheese — a 3,200-year-old leftover excavated from the tomb of Ptahmes in Egypt. Using mass spectrometry, an international team of researchers analyzed the protein composition to reveal a mix of sheep or goat and cow’s milk wrapped in cloth.