![]() Holden Travel / Alamyīut Mediterranean people had little need for butter. A Roman sieve, possibly used for cheese making. Cheeses were often given as gifts, and they were a standard breakfast food, along with olives, eggs, bread, honey, and sometimes leftovers from the night before. Smoked goat’s-milk cheese from Velabrum, the valley by the Forum that runs up to Capitoline Hill, one of the seven hills of Rome, was especially popular-part of a general fondness for smoking foods. A considerable variety of hard, soft, and smoked cheeses were produced in the city, and others were imported from around the empire. In Rome, cheese was eaten by both the rich and the poor. ![]() ![]() For centuries, this was the norm in many parts of the world: People who ate butter and drank milk were uncivilized outsiders.Ĭuriously, the Greco-Roman disdain for dairy stopped short at cheese. ![]()
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