Cheese, glorious cheese. Or so says the Dairy Council. But it is general believed that cheese was made by a failure in ancient milk storing practices. From Wikipedia.org:
Since animal skins and inflated internal organs have, since ancient times, provided storage vessels for a range of foodstuffs, it is probable that the process of cheese making was discovered accidentally by storing milk in a container made from the stomach of an animal, resulting in the milk being turned to curd and whey by the rennet from the stomach. There is a widely-told legend about the discovery of cheese by an Arab trader who used this method of storing milk. The legend has many individual variations.
Sounds tasty! And with the discovery of cheese came the discovery of moldy cheeses too:
Bleu cheese is believed to have been discovered by accident. The caves that early cheeses were aged in shared the properties of being temperature and moisture controlled environments, as well as being favorable to many varieties of mold.
Mmmmm. Tasty!
So next time you’re eating that big cheeseburger, pizza or even sampling brie at a star-studded gala, think to yourself: “This tastes like failure to me!”
