SC - cheese questions

[Jenne Heise]

Ladies and gents, this is _still_ bugging me: 
Does anyone know if 'bread and cheese' does show up as what we would think
of as travel or snack food in the middle ages?

Also, if so, what kinds of readily available cheeses -- Besides Farmer
Cheese-- are closest to period cheese?

(I realize that any cheese made in America is essentially not period,
especially any 'mass produced cheese' because the non-period cows are
eating a non-period diet, and with cheese the breed of cow and the diet
REALLY makes a difference...)

And lastly, I got the impression from C. Anne Wilson's book that people
would have been eating soft cheese in late spring, summer and fall, and
hard cheese in winter. Is this right?

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me.

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They do not preach that His Pity allows them to drop their job when 
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