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On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 12:51:06 -0400 (EDT) Aldyth at aol.com writes:
>I thought you might be able to help her.
>
>Aldyth
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>Forwarded message:
>From:	afn24101 at afn.org (Sharon L. Harrett)
>Sender:	owner-sca-cooks at eden.com
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>To:	sca-cooks at eden.com
>Date: 97-06-11 07:15:52 EDT
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>
>Greetings All,
>Does anyone have documentation for goats'milk cheese in period? I have 
>some
>secondary for Classical Greece and Rome, but that's not enough. I seem 
>to
>remember seeing an article on the history of cheeses in a magazine 
>(possibly
>Food &Wine) but can't find it. I have a friens who raises goats and 
>makes
>wonderful cheese, and she would like to enter it in Art-Sci, but can't 
>find
>anything reliable for dates and places. Help please?
>
>Thanks,
>Ceridwen
>
>P.S.  Oh, and BTW, I found the method for making vinegar... its the 
>last
>entry on the page from the "Old Icelandic Medical Miscellany" in His 
>Grace's
>Collection!!!!!!
>
>
>
This is the first time I have tried to respond to one of these
infinitely-forwarded group letters, so I hope this ends up in more or
less the right place.

I have entered goat-milk cheese in Arts & Sciences competitions, with
good results.  My documentation for the use of goats in making cheese
comes from:

Larousse Gastronomique, by Prosper Montagne (translated by Nina Froud and
a bunch of other people), Crown Publishers, New York 1961

Food in History, by Reay Tannahill, Stein & Day, New York 1973

It also seems like several of the books about all the various kinds of
cheeses have chapters on the history of cheeses, and sometimes the
history of particular varieties of cheese.

Good Luck!
Mistress Drahomira, Unser Hafen, Outlands