DTS200Y1 Lecture Notes - Royal Assent, Terroir, Roquefort
20 Apr 2013
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Cheese origin narratives: the shepherd boy and the first making of cheese. A sheppard who had sheep"s milk, but he had sheep skin and couldn"t drink all the milks so put it into the sheep skin and hung it. After a few days the milked formed into cheese and he tasted it and it was good. This is the origin of all cheeses. At some point in the cheese cycle the cheese gets royal assent. All these stories suggest that cheese was adopted as the food of the high and mighty- this marks the cultural status of cheese. Tied to simple mode of life- bishop and the monastery, sheppard, Elite groups were transnational in their habit- transnational of food was through royalty. Made locally or not the royalty made sure food was transported. Consumption and display of diversity: the growth of the bourgeoisies following the industrial revolution helped to percolate the taste for cheese downward.
