June 4th national cheese day.

Cheese is a staple commodity in the world. Cow milk production alone is over 500 million metric tons annually. Cheese is made from milk from a number of sources including goats, Lamas, Yaks and many other. However most non artisan cheese comes form dairy cows milk.

Artisan Cheese making at home.

Many cultural and traditional functions are observed at home and made better by food including cheese.

Artisan Cheese Making at Home

Since cheese-making is a process that predates the written word, nobody really knows exactly when cheese was invented. While historians believe that humans began domesticating milk producing about 10,000 years ago, all that’s really known about early cheese-making is that cheese was made in Egypt and Greece for thousands of years. Some historians believe that cheese-making may have been discovered accidentally when sheep herders stored milk in the stomach of an animal. This would have caused the enzyme found in the stomach of ruminant animals to coagulate the milk. The milk would have then separated into curds and whey. However, this is currently only a theory.

Source National Calendar

Still starts in the fields…

Grass lands producing grass for cattle are in demand for feed lots and dairy cows They feed for winter as well. for meat producers. Photo KDG ( some believe that protein from soya is a better alternative to grass going through meat.)

On this Day: June 4th 1970

Tonga gets independence.