What about paneer The article states Until its modern spread along with European culture cheese was nearly unheard of in oriental cultures uninvented in the pre Columbian Americas and of only limited use in sub mediterranean Africa mainly being widespread and popular only in Europe and areas influenced strongly by its cultures Perhaps some mention should be made of paneer the ubiquitous Indian fresh cheese which does not owe its existence to European culture but rather is apparently of Persian origin cheesmakers in dairy country This doesn t need a citation needed tag it s common business sense Any producer close to its supply is going to have fresher supplies The price of the supply may or may not be lower but the shipping costs will be A review in chapter Post classical Europe It is generally believed that Rome spread a uniform set of cheesemaking techniques throughout much of Europe and introduced cheesemaking to areas without a previous history of it It was practically right for tough conservative cheese but very few for wide varieties of soft and white cheese As Rome declined and long distance trade with the oriental and meridional coasts collapsed cheese in Europe diversified further and various countries even germanic or finnish ones far in the north taking a part of this antique mediterranean heritage develop their own distinctive cheesemaking traditions and products Some historians of Touraine suggest that shapes of the cheese was formely chosen to please the old divinities who received these gifts These intercessions were always rediscovered and rapidly transformed by religious mainstream especialy sto cian then christian during and after the second roman Empire The British Cheese Board claims that Britain has approximately 700 distinct local cheeses 6 France and Italy have perhaps 600 each with much a large diversity of texture and form A French proverb holds there is a different French cheese for every day of the year and Charles de Gaulle once asked humorously how can you govern a country in which there are 246 kinds of cheese 7 The advancement of the cheese art in Europe was indeed slow during the centuries after Rome s fall but monastorie s cellars performed to store a lot of cheese innovating in surface s treatement and finding new flavours Even starting from the choosen feed for the cows the basic process of making and especially molding under press or with special instruments were modified Many of the cheeses we know best today were first recorded in the late Middle Ages or after cheeses like Cheddar around 1500 CE Parmesan in 1597 Gouda in 1697 and Camembert in 1791 8 In 1546 John Heywood wrote in Proverbes that the moon is made of a greene cheese Greene may refer here not to the color as many now think but to being new or unaged 9 Variations on this sentiment were long repeated Although some people assumed that this was a serious belief in the era before space exploration it is more likely that Heywood was indulging in nonsense Yeah Heywood was good at that Preceding unsigned comment added by